One of the bizarre things Rick Santorum has made an issue of is claiming that involuntary euthanasia is so rampant in the Netherlands that the elderly avoid going to hospitals because they’re afraid they’ll be killed. That’s a lie, of course, and when Santorum spokesperson Alice Stewart was asked about it by a Dutch reporter, …
Category Archive: Right to Die
Jan 19 2012
Misunderstanding Assisted Suicide
I reported a couple weeks ago on a new report that shows that there has been no slippery slope from voluntary to involuntary euthanasia in those states and countries where the former has been legalized. Now Douglas Noble at the British Medical Journal seems to miss the point entirely in trying to characterize those who …
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