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Dr. Anne Hanson’s Testimony Opposing Assisted Suicide

Suicide Contagion; Safeguard Failures; and Implications for the Practice of Psychiatry 

This article was published by Choice is an Illusion.

Anne Hanson MDThe Maryland Psychiatric Society opposes HB 643, the End-of-Life Option Act. Since this bill was first introduced in 2015, the Maryland Psychiatric Society has extensively deliberated the legislation within the organization through several listserv discussions, a member survey, and a four hour pro-con debate sponsored jointly with the Maryland somatic physician’s organization, Med Chi. In addition to reviewing the legislation each year, we considered information contained in the American Psychiatric Association’s resource document on assisted suicide (APA 2017) and other literature as cited in the references below.

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