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Euthanasia and the 'Slippery Slope'
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Critics of euthanasia sometimes claim that legalising any form of the practice will lead to a slippery slope effect, resulting eventually in non-voluntary or even Wikipedia:involuntary euthanasia. The slippery slope argument has been present in the euthanasia debate since at least the 1930s.[1]
Lawyer Eugene Volokh argued in his article The Mechanism of the Slippery Slope that judicial logic could eventually lead to a gradual break in the legal restrictions for euthanasia,[2] while medical oncologist and palliative care specialist, Jan Bernheim, believes the law can provide safeguards against slippery-slope effects, saying that the grievances of euthanasia opponents are unfounded.[3]
References
- ↑ Demetra, (1996). "Recent historical perspectives regarding medical euthanasia and physician assisted suicide," British medical bulletin, 52, 389.
- ↑ Eugene Volokh, 'The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope', 116 Harvard Law Review 1026 (2003) [1] Template:JSTOR
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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