Pushback Against Physician-Assisted Suicide Grows

Matt Vallière is the executive director of the Patients’ Rights Action Fund, a group heading up the lawsuit filed in California over the state’s law permitting physician-assisted suicide. He believes the tide of public opinion is slowly turning away from PAS. Vallière pointed to a number of reasons the tide is turning, including the growing number of “horror stories” coming out of Canada, where legal assisted suicide, dressed up by the euphemism “medical assistance in dying” (MAID), is rampant. The proliferation of people being approved for assisted suicide and euthanasia in Canada due to temporary, solvable problems such as poverty and access to suitable housing, Vallière said, is causing people in general and policymakers in particular to reevaluate their stance on the issue.”

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