Response to Doctors for Life on assisted suicide
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https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2024.v114i17.2241Keywords:
Euthanasia, Bioethics, Assisted dying, Medical ethics and law, Ethics, Global BioethicsAbstract
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