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WHEN GEORGE W. BUSH APpointed the President's Council on Bioethics in 2001, he stacked it with conservatives who had already taken stands against abortion, embryonic stem-cell research, euthanasia, and assisted suicide. In its first "recommendation"-really a declaration-the council says, "Euthanasia and assisted suicide are antithetical to ethical caregiving for people with disability ... [and] should always be opposed." Despite these concessions to humane standards of caregiving, however, the council's overriding message is to reject personal autonomy in end-of-life care by limiting the role of advanced directives.
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BOOKS DIE-HARDS TAKING CARE: ETHICAL CAREGIVING IN OUR AGING SOCIETY BY PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL ON BIOETHICS 309 pages, free at www.bioethics.gov
WHEN GEORGE W. BUSH APpointed the President's Council on Bioethics in 2001, he stacked it with conservatives who had already taken stands against abortion, embryonic stem-cell research, euthanasia, and assisted suicide. Nonetheless, I approached the council's sixth report, Taking Care, with an open mind after reading a column in The New York Times by David B...See the full content of this document
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