Alex Schadenberg, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: A critique of Canadian Senate Bill S - 225 - An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (physician-assisted death)

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Alex Schadenberg, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: A critique of Canadian Senate Bill S - 225 - An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (physician-assisted death)

http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.ca/2014/12/a-critique-of-canadian-senate-bill-s.html?m=1

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