Sentence examples for permit assisted from inspiring English sources

Should we permit assisted dying?

Tutu pointed to laws in California and Canada that permit assisted dying for terminally ill people.

My third concern is that we need to reflect on what sort of society we might become if we were to permit assisted suicide.

I have three concerns: First, a change in the law to permit assisted suicide would cross a fundamental legal and ethical Rubicon.

Legislation to permit assisted suicide and/or voluntary euthanasia has been passed in the American state of Oregon, the Netherlands and Belgium (see article).

The college is opposed to a change in the law to permit assisted dying because it would be impossible to implement without eliminating the possibility that patients may be in some way coerced into the decision to die".

If the law in Australia permitted assisted dying I would be putting plans into place right now to take my own life.

Until after a Supreme Court ruling in 2006 threw out a Justice Department effort to block Oregon's law, no other state permitted assisted suicide.

A14 U.S. Setback on Assisted Suicide A move by Attorney General John Ashcroft to overturn an Oregon law permitting assisted suicide suffered a setback when a federal judge extended a restraining order against it for at least four months.

A move by Attorney General John Ashcroft to overturn an Oregon law permitting assisted suicide suffered a setback today when a federal judge extended a restraining order against it for at least four months.

Once a law permitting assisted suicide is in place there can be no effective safeguard against this worry, never mind the much more insidious pressure that could come from a very small minority of unsupportive relatives who wish not to be burdened.