The slippery slope argument
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Background on the slippery slope argument
Much of the opposition to the legalisation of assisted dying is based on the fear that voluntary requests from patients for physician aid in dying would soon be expanded to allow for patients to make advance directives for euthanasia upon the meeting of particular physical conditions. It would then be further expanded to decisions for euthanasia being made by surrogates or health care agents. Finally, it would expand to the involuntary euthanasia of ...
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