Legalizing ‘Medical Aid in Dying’ Normalizes Suicide

The Western Australian Parliament will begin debating the highly controversial Voluntary Euthanasia Bill on March 8. Under the measure, a request for the administration of euthanasia would only apply to a person who has a terminal illness that will cause death within two years and is experiencing debilitating pain. Jorge Dirkx/AFP/Getty Images

Commentary

Here’s the advocacy scam: “Death with dignity” activists push suicide facilitation for some people—but still claim to oppose suicide per se because they call doctor-prescribed death by the euphemism of “medical aid in dying” (MAID).