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Disability & Assisted Dying (Part 3) - No Option but Assisted Suicide? A Dark Route!
Disability & Assisted Dying (Part 3) - No Option but Assisted Suicide? A Dark Route!
Following Part 1 and Part 2 of this important conversation, in this final segment the panel (Amanda Hunter, Ken Ross, George Fielding, and UKMFA’s Dr Liz Evans) conclude that legalising Assisted Suicide will put those with disabilities at risk of feeling they have no option but to proceed down this dark route. And that society will cross an ethical Rubicon into the realm of eugenics. The Illusion of Choice and Systemic Failures A primary concern raised by the panel is that “choice” in Assist...