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According to a recent Gallup poll, more than two-thirds of Americans say doctors should be allowed to aid the terminally ill in ending their lives. Correspondent Deborah Potter reports on growing support for physician-assisted suicide and talks to both supporters and opponents, including Catholic bioethicist Dr. Kevin Donovan and Dominican scholar Rev. Thomas Petri, who says it\u2019s never permissible to take a life for the sake of alleviating suffering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“People in this generation have had a lot of control over their own lives. They’ve had a lot of choices that they were able to make, living in relatively good financial circumstances, for example, and maybe they want choices to have at the end. They want to control how they go out,” says University of Maryland philosophy professor Sam Kerstein. 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