A pro-life speaker held up a vial and shook it. Inside, she said, was a suicide pill, obtained on a recent trip to the Netherlands. At least, the impression she left with her audience is that once a person reaches the age of 70 in Holland, they're given a pill to use at will. That's how far the Dutch euthanasia movement has come.
Not so fast. A quick Google search turned up a lot of wistfulness on the part of "self-determination" advocates for such a thing as "a peaceful pill" or "last will pill," but none in reality. And certainly not as something be handed out along with social security checks.
Both pro-death and pro-life sources bear this out. The first rumblings of such a pill date from 2001; this item from 2007 still speaks of it in future terms. Let's be careful with our facts. We don't do our cause good by over-dramatizing threats.
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