Anna Gorman, an author for Kaiser Health News, published an article in USA Today titled “Disabled Right Advocates Fight Assisted Suicide Legislation.” Gorman’s article explains the dangers of a proposed legislation in California that would legalize prescriptions for terminally ill patients to end their lives. The bill was passed and will be effective for ten years. In her article, Gorman interviews three different people who believe that physician assisted suicide should remain illegal because no one ought to end their life prematurely. Gorman summarizes the belief that physician assisted suicide should be illegal because allowing it could lead to sudden decisions based on an incorrect life expectancy prediction from a physician or influence from family and friends.
The article beings by introducing Anthony Orefice, a man who was in a motorcycle accident at the age of 19. The doctors told him and his family that he would not survive. He did, but was paralyzed from the waist down. Before his accident, Orefice was very active and enjoyed activities such as snowboarding and surfing. Because he could not participate in these sports anymore, Orefice recalls wishing he was dead. Despite the hardships of being paralyzed, Orefice now has a family, owns his own business, and advocates against the assisted…show more content… Doctor explains that people with disabilities are susceptible to coercion when family members do not act in the patient’s best interest. Like Golden, Doctor also believes that the bill should not be passed because there are many times in which a physician is wrong about the life expectancy of their patient. In these cases, the patient believes that they will die soon, and with the allowance of assisted suicide, could end their own life without knowing that they could have had many more years to
