Euthanasia law would ‘force doctors to lie’

(Source News Talk ZB.)A doctor who cares for dying people says the introduction of a law legalising euthanasia would force doctors to lie.A Bill decriminalising the practice has been put in the member’s ballot by Labour MP Maryan Street.Capital and Coast palliative medicine consultant Dr Sinead Donnelly says if it was passed, it would be a disaster for society.She says under the Bill, doctors would have to say the person’s underlying illness was the cause of death, not the lethal injection.“And in this legislation they want the doctor to lie, to tell a lie, in addition to killing the patient, or to giving the patient, the person, the injection that killed them.”Dr Donnelly says the legislation is incredibly poor and is shocked by it.Continue reading.