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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
A controversial UK law that has not had safeguards loosened, but instead has had them strengthened in response to the evidence, seems a perfectly reasonable comparison to me. Far more reasonable than mistakes made in other countries which you would hope we would learn from rather than emulate.
It's all academic anyway. A few groups, some with long and not especially distinguished histories of wanting to control how the rest of the country lives, told the MPs to jump and they responded asking how high.
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that's slightly inaccurate in that yes the time limit has reduced but the access to it has been made easier and easier with the 2 doctor rule now a mere formality with no real check by second doctor in most cases
and any euthanasia law would go the same way no mater what safeguards you try to put in they will slide
the way it stands at the moment the vast majority of the country who wish to die can do so
to alter it so a very few who cant because of a illness / disability does not seem to me to be for the good of all as far more will be put at risk of persuasion and or direct deception by any such law