American Medical Association May Reverse Their Stance on Assisted Suicide | EWTN News Nightly
- Preacher
- Mother Angelica
- Tradition
- Roman Catholic
- Published
- Length
- 5:00
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The American Medical Association may reverse their stance on assisted suicide and take a neutral position on the life-ending practice. The AMA meets on Saturday to discuss revisions to its assisted suicide policies. One resolution proposes to stop "criminalizing" doctors who perform assisted suicide, while another calls for the term to be replaced with "medical aid in dying" instead. Physician-assisted suicide is when a doctor facilitates a patient's death. The Catholic Church teaches life must be defended from conception until natural death, and assisted suicide is "intrinsically evil". The AMA had firmly opposed the practice in the past. A practicing cardiologist, Dr. Jeff White, a 45 year member of the AMA and also a member of the Catholic Medical Association, joins to share what is at stake at tomorrow's meeting. Dr. Jeff tells us how this shift happened and where this pressure is coming from within the American Medical Association. The AMA claims to be "a powerful ally to doctors in patient care" but Dr. Jeff discusses whether assisted suicide is betrayal of the Hippocratic oath to "do no harm." ------------ EWTN News Nightly provides the latest news and analysis from a Catholic perspective. Join host Tracy Sabol, our Capitol Hill, White House and Rome Correspondents, as well as many other diverse guests daily, to get the latest from the U.S. and the Vatican on topics regarding our Catholic faith and interests. ------------- EWTN News Nightly airs on EWTN weekdays at 6pm & 9pm ET. ------------ Don't miss an episode of EWTN New Nightly. Get updates here: https://www.ewtn.com/tv/shows/ewtn-news-nightly ------------- Sign up today to receive the EWTN News Nightly newsletter: https://www.ewtn.com/enn ------------- Follow EWTN News Nightly on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ewtnnewsnightly Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWTNNewsNightly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ewtnnewsnightly/ ------------- Subscribe to EWTN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/EWTN ------------- You can support the EWTN News mission: https://bit.ly/3qDR1qf
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