(National Catholic Register) – Delegates of the American Medical Association (AMA) voted by a supermajority on June 9 to reaffirm the association’s opposition to physician-assisted suicide (PAS), while also strengthening conscience protections for all physicians who work in states where PAS is legal.
The approximately 700 elected delegates, representing more than a quarter million U.S. physicians, residents and medical students, voted to maintain the position of the nation’s largest non-profit professional association that PAS is “incompatible with the physicians’ role as healer,” during their annual House of Delegates meeting in Chicago, June 6-11.
AMA delegates and members told the Register they hope the association’s reaffirmed opposition will help stop the spread of PAS, as Delaware last month became the 12th U.S. jurisdiction to legalize it. CONTINUE