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When Healers Become Agents of Death, Not Life

Monday, 09 December 2019 14:55
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Source: Washington Times

By Frederick J. White

Assisted suicide makes for bad law and bad medicine. It is dangerous public policy that negatively impacts everyone and profoundly changes medicine’s role in society. Performing assisted suicides damages the physician-patient relationship and violates our calling to heal.

Many medical groups globally and in the United States reject assisted suicide. The World Medical Association (WMA), for example, recently announced its continuing firm opposition, writing “utmost respect has to be maintained for human life.” The WMA reached this conclusion after holding consultative conferences around the world, and states that the WMA position “is in accord with the views of most physicians worldwide.”

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Assisted Suicide is not the Answer

Thursday, 05 December 2019 13:02
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Source: Madison.com

By Cori Salchert

As more and more states consider passing assisted suicide policy, it is important for Americans to realize that this dangerous policy puts vulnerable lives, like mine and my children’s, at risk.

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Doctor: Assisted Suicide Should Not be Allowed

Tuesday, 24 September 2019 12:23
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Source: Madison.com

By: Dr. Tim Jessick

MENOMONEE FALLS — A bill introduced last week to legalize assisted suicide would be disastrous for Wisconsin. It would shrink end-of-life treatment options for older adults, people with disabilities and others facing terminal diagnoses.

Assisted suicide compromises the role of a physician as a healer and runs contrary to the position of the largest medical society in the country, the American Medical Association. The physician-patient relationship is one that must operate on trust that the physician will do everything in his or her power to heal the patient, and never do the patient harm. The American Medical Association recognizes how assisted suicide undermines the primary role of the physician as healer and reaffirmed its opposition again this year.

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Physician-Assisted Suicide is Wrong

Wednesday, 07 August 2019 17:43
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Source: New Jersey 101.5

By: Jeff Deminski

Update: I wrote this in February of this year. Now, in August, New Jersey’s ‘right to die’ law is underway. I understand this is a sensitive issue. (Is there a more personal one?) In the months since I wrote this I have not changed my point of view, not even with the passing of my beloved father-in-law. He was diagnosed in March with stage IV lung cancer and he was gone on Memorial Day. He lost far too much weight, was delirious at times, dealt with pain. Yet I never saw a more dignified man in my life. He died with more dignity than most will ever know, and he cherished the times he was able to see his grandchildren during his decline. I respect the views of those in favor of this new law, and I respectfully disagree.

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Assisted Suicide is not Peaceful, but it is Permanent

Monday, 05 August 2019 18:32
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Learn why doctor-prescribed suicide is wrong for Pennsylvania

Source: New Jersey 101.5

By Bill Spadea

Over the past few years during the battle over whether New Jersey was going to legalize “physician-assisted suicide,” I’ve gotten to know a person who knows this issue all too well.

Kristen Hanson lost her husband J.J. in December 2017 after he fought courageously to live despite a diagnosis of brain cancer. After being told he had only a few months to live, JJ fought. And he fought hard. This brave Marine grabbed another few incredible years on this earth. Time he spent with his wife and children. Time he spent educating people on the real dangers of preying on people with terrible diseases and pushing an option of having them kill themselves to end the pain.

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