Download This PaperIndiana Assisted Suicide Bill Fails to Protect Objecting Practitioners: Assisted Suicide Evolves From ‘Assistance’ to ‘Medical Care’
5 Pages Posted: 7 Feb 2020
Date Written: January 14, 2020
Abstract
Participation in assisted suicide is described in HB1020 as the provision of "medical care," including prescribing or dispensing lethal medication and being present at a patient's suicide. Statutory affirmation that assisted suicide is not only permitted but is a form of "medical care" would likely have serious adverse consequences for objecting Indiana physicians.
Keywords: assisted suicide
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Murphy, Sean T., Indiana Assisted Suicide Bill Fails to Protect Objecting Practitioners: Assisted Suicide Evolves From ‘Assistance’ to ‘Medical Care’ (January 14, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3519632 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3519632
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