In 1994, Oregon voters passed the Death with Dignity Act, which
legalized physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. Since then,
it has become legal in 4 more states, including New Mexico, where the
state court ruling that it is constitutional is under appeal. Is it, in
the words of the American Medical Association’s code of ethics,
“fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer”? Will
these laws lead to a slippery slope, where the vulnerable are pressured
to choose death and human life is devalued? Or do we need to recognize
everyone’s basic right to autonomy, the right to end pain and suffering,
and the right to choose to die with dignity?
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