With Washington and Montana recently jumping on the assisted-suicide bandwagon, many health care professionals are taking a pro-life stand against assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Doctors and others can "Take the Pledge" to do no harm and stand against physician-assisted suicide.
Alex Schadenberg, spokesman for the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, said it's important for pro-life doctors to have support.
“Some of the physicians in Oregon opposed assisted suicide," he said, "but after it was legalized, some of them changed their position to neutral and have stopped opposing assisted suicide.”
Dr. Kenneth Stevens, vice president of Physicians for Compassionate Care, said the pledge simply reinforces the Hippocratic oath, which includes the line: “I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.”
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