Doctors cannot be neutral on assisted dying
From our UK edition
The Royal College of Physicians will soon begin yet another consultation with its members on the subject of 'assisted dying'. The college is opposed to legalisation, but a minority are unhappy with this. They know there is no chance of persuading a majority to support such practices. So they are pressing for the college to declare itself neutral. Whether the law should be changed, they say, is a matter for society rather than for the medical profession. In one sense they are right. Whether the law should be changed to permit people to be supplied with lethal drugs to take their own lives is a social rather than a medical matter.
