{"id":9569,"date":"2019-06-12T12:12:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T19:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9569"},"modified":"2019-09-21T12:17:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T19:17:13","slug":"american-medical-association-call-it-physician-assisted-suicide-not-aid-in-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9569","title":{"rendered":"American Medical Association: Call It \u2018Physician-Assisted Suicide,\u2019 Not \u2018Aid-in-Dying\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>CNS News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Patrick&nbsp; Goodenough<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n        CNSNews.com) \u2013 Advocates of assisted suicide are dismayed that the largest association of physicians in the U.S. has decided to continue using the term \u201cphysician-assisted suicide\u201d rather than euphemisms such as \u201cmedical aid-in-dying.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n        Meeting in Chicago on Monday, the American Medical Association, by a vote of 360-190, adopted a report by its Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA) recommending that the term \u201cphysician-assisted suicide\u201d continue to be used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>         Significantly, the AMA also voted to reaffirm its Code of Medical Ethics\u2019 current policy on assisted suicide \u2013 the view that allowing doctors to help patients to die \u201cis fundamentally incompatible with the physician&#8217;s role as healer.\u201d That vote was 392-162.  .  . 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