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It used to be euthanasia or mercy killing.

That's gone the way of the dodo bird.

Now it is medical assistance in dying. Physician-assisted suicide, in other words.

Welcome back to Issues, Et cetera. I'm Todd Wilkin. Joining us for a bioethics update, Wesley Smith,

he's senior fellow at the Discovery Institute Center on Human Exceptionalism. He's a columnist for

National Review Online, author of several books, including

forced exit the slippery slope from assisted suicide to legalized murder, and culture of death,

the age of do harm medicine. Wesley, welcome back. Thank you, Todd. How are you doing?

Doing well. What struck you about this recent and now much written about Gallup poll on

moral acceptability of various issues

regarding suicide.

Yeah, it's very interesting because they obviously pulled a lot of different issues from

abortion to cloning and different things, but they had two questions about suicide.

The first one asked about the moral

acceptability of doctor-assisted suicide. That's the term they use, doctor-assisted suicide.

And 49%, almost a majority, said that it was morally acceptable. A little bit later,

they asked about the moral acceptability of suicide without any modifier.

Only 21% said that suicide was acceptable.

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