Read the Fine Print and Do NOT Be Afraid to Ask Questions
D. Joy Riley, M.D., M.A.
Executive Director
iStock photoMedically-assisted suicide (MAS), under a variety of names including physician-assisted suicide, is continually pushed by the group, Compassion and Choices. Other proponents include individuals who are facing a particularly difficult diagnosis or prognosis themselves, or have been asked by loved ones to seek changes in the law that would make MAS legal. It seems this last case was operative in the presentation of HB 0598 in the Tennessee State House Population Health Subcommittee on 4 March. The MAS bill (HB 0598) was summarized as creating “a process whereby an adult ...read more
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