Assisted suicide is dangerous and discriminatory. One example of this is that some medical professionals decide which patients to give suicide prevention to and which patients to assist.
This judgment is inherently discriminatory in the context of assisted suicide because the socially devalued group, people with life-threatening disabilities, will always get suicide assistance when requested while an otherwise non-disabled person will receive the standard of care for suicide prevention care and services. Talk about disparate treatment and unequal protection under the law!
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