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The International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, in its "Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Frequently Asked Questions," available at the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide website(accessed Jan. 21, 2009), stated:
“The government should not have the right to give one group of people (e.g. doctors) the power to kill another group of people (e.g. their patients).
Activists often claim that laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide are government mandated suffering. But this claim would be similar to saying that laws against selling contaminated food are government mandated starvation.
Laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide are in place to prevent abuse and to protect people from unscrupulous doctors and others. They are not, and never have been, intended to make anyone suffer.”
Jan. 21, 2009