On euthanasia and slippery slopes

Published: September 27, 2007, 9:06 am

Tags: evidence, euthanasia, slippery slope

Colleagues at the Journal of medical ethics published research results this week indicating that the availability of voluntary euthanasia does not lead us down a slippery slope to all sorts of involuntary euthanasia. Here's a summary of the findings from eurekaalert.No evidence physician-assisted death leads to 'slippery slope'Legal physician-assisted dying in Oregon and the Netherlands: evidenceconcerning the impact on patients in vulnerable groupsThere is no evidence that legalised physician assisted suicide, resultsin disproportionate numbers of vulnerable people having their livesended prematurely by doctors, finds research in the Journal of MedicalEthics .Opponents of legislation, which enables doctors to help people to die,have claimed that it leads to a "slippery slope."It makes it easier to end the lives of those who might be deemed aburden to society or their families, such as those with disabilities,stigmatised disease, or mental illness, they say.But an analysis of figures

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