Pereira's Attack on Legalizing Euthanasia or Assisted Suicide: Smoke and Mirrors
In a paper published in Current Oncology, University of Ottawa palliative care physician Jose Pereira states that the, “laws and safeguards [in countries in which euthanasia or assisted suicide have been legalized] are regularly ignored and transgressed in all the jurisdictions, and that transgressions are not prosecuted.” He purports to demonstrate that the safeguards and controls put in place in the permissive jurisdictions are an “illusion.” In the present paper, we expose problems with the evidence base provided and relied upon by Pereira. It should be noted that we provide only examples o... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Text |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2012 |
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Schulich Law Scholars
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Schlagwörter: | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / Slippery Slopes / Evidence / Netherlands / Belgium / Canada / Jose Pereira / Critique / Public Policy Debates / Comparative and Foreign Law / Health Law and Policy / Jurisdiction / Law / Law and Society / Legal Writing and Research / Medical Jurisprudence |
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