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In a slippery slope argument, a course of action is rejected because the slippery slope advocate believes it will lead to a chain reaction resulting in an undesirable end or ends. [1] The core of the slippery slope argument is that a specific decision under debate is likely to result in unintended consequences. The strength of such an argument ...
Countering this view, professor of internal medicine Margaret Battin finds that there is a lack of evidence to support slippery slope arguments. [28] Additionally, it is argued that the public nature of the Groningen Protocol decisions, and their evaluation by a prosecutor, prevent a "slippery slope" from occurring. [3] [29]
Conservative MP Alicia Kearns has said that slippery slope arguments against the Assisted Dying Bill are not demonstrated in Australia and states in the US. She told MPs: “It is our job to ...
Arguments against include: It can lead to a slippery slope; if we allow patients this right, it can expand and have dire consequences. Give rise to pressuring those to end their lives or the lives of others; ethically immoral by human and medical standards.
Liam Fox, who is a practising doctor and served as shadow health secretary for more than four years, believes it would be impossible to prevent “the slippery slope scenario” of the bill being ...
The “slippery slope” refrain was a common one in the Senate hearing Wednesday. “My fear that we start with tight parameters and then down the road, we're just like Canada labeled as worse ...
Slippery slope arguments may be defeated by asking critical questions or giving counterarguments. [32] There are several reasons for a slippery slope to be fallacious: for example, the argument is going too far into the future, it is a too complex argument whose structure is hard to identify, or the argument makes emotional appeals. [33]
Ultimately, the arguments in favor prevailed, and the bill was voted Ought to Pass, 179-176. ... They voiced concerns that medical aid in dying would be a slippery slope.