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Article: A feminist case against self-determined dying in assisted suicide and euthanasia.
- Article from:
- Studies in Prolife Feminism
- Article date:
- September 22, 1995
- Author:
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Familiar clarion calls for choice, autonomy, and the moral right to control one's own body ring forth in current movements to legalize physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. In the United States dedicated activists, some physicians and certain respected ethicists make a moral case for the right to assisted suicide and euthanasia in order to control how and when one dies. (1) Feminists and other members of society must now confront the dilemma of whether this new liberty would contribute to human flourishing and well-being. More specifically, would women in particular benefit from more choices at the end of life?
Women have for so long been denied full autonomy ...