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Legalizing ‘Medical Aid in Dying’ Normalizes Suicide

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
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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).

Wesley J. Smith
Wesley J. Smith
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Award-winning author Wesley J. Smith is host of the Humanize Podcast (Humanize.today), chairman of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. His latest book is “Culture of Death: The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.”
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