Which of the following is NOT an example of a conceptual slippery slope?
A. If a miserable quality of life should allow a physician to help a competent patient die, why should not a miserable quality of life allow a physician to help an incompetent patient to die?
B. "The real ethics of American physicians remains largely untested. Once physicians no longer make money keeping patients alive but start to make money helping patients die, no patient in America will be safe."
C. If your motive is to kill a person and the result is death, both in letting die and in killing, and if society permits letting die, why should not society permit killing?
D. If we can permit the abortion of a 26-week-old fetus because it tests positive for Down syndrome, why cannot we let a 39-week-old baby die because it is born with Down syndrome?
E. Because we have already accepted that some severely retarded elderly patients in mental institutions have lives that are not worth living, should not we also accept the same for institutionalized, severely retarded neonates?
Answer: B
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