| Thursday, 29 January 2009 |
| To sanction the taking of innocent human life is to contradict a primary purpose of law in an ordered society. A law or court decision allowing assisted suicide would demean the lives of vulnerable patients and expose them to exploitation by those who feel they are better off dead. Such a policy would corrupt the medical profession, whose ethical code calls on physicians to serve life and never to kill. The voiceless or marginalized in our society - the poor, the frail elderly, racial minorities, millions of people who lack health insurance - would be the first to feel pressure to die.
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