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October 23, 2015

Assisted Suicide Coercion Happens Behind Closed Doors

Assisted suicide propagandists insist that doctors will never assist suicides if they think a person is being coerced to die.

How in the hell would they know? Family pressure isn’t exerted with a gun to the head that can be seen on an X-ray. It occurs in daily nudges and winks–subtle pushes–that drive the vulnerable person toward the abyss.

One such example appears in the New York Times Magazine today, in a first person account of Carlos Framb, who pushed his mother–growing blind and debilitated with old age–into assisted suicide in Colombia. Click here for more...

Click here for the originating article from National Review.