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?The compassionate killers: Ray Gosling, AIDS, and euthanasia?

By Alliance Alert

Newsweek: "Gosling's admission and his ensuing arrest was certainly shocking. But it also confirmed what assisted-suicide experts already knew: legal issues of hastening death have long plagued AIDS patients and their doctors. 'Certainly, we know it's a community where this type of bootleg assisted suicide occurred throughout the 1990s,' says Ian Dowbiggin, the author of A Concise History of Euthanasia and an expert on the right-to-die movement. 'This specific example of assisted suicide, I don't know how common it is, but it is likely more common in this particular community than elsewhere.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on February 19, 2010 (boomark / email).