#97 - Should We Legalize Assisted Suicide?
With Peter Singer, Andrew Solomon, Baroness Ilora Finlay, and Dr. Daniel Sulmasy
December 27, 2019
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Episode 97 · December 27, 2019
#97 - Should We Legalize Assisted Suicide?
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Summary
Now legal in nine U.S. states and the District of Columbia, physician-assisted suicide has a growing contingency that want to legalize the practice. Will these laws lead to a slippery slope, where the vulnerable are pressured to choose death and human life is devalued? Or do we need to recognize everyone’s basic right to autonomy, the right to end pain and suffering, and the right to choose to die with dignity?
FOR THE MOTION:
Peter Singer - Philosopher & Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University
Andrew Solomon - Author, "Far From the Tree" & Prof. of Clinical Psychology, Columbia University
AGAINST THE MOTION:
Baroness Ilora Finlay - President, British Medical Association & Member, House of Lords
Dr. Daniel Sulmasy - Prof. of Medicine and Ethics, University of Chicago & Member, Presidential Bioethics Commission
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