The Price of Mercy : Legalizing Medical Euthanasia

This article is written by Sourya Banerjee.

"I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel"

                                                                                                            

-The Hippocratic Oath.

Pulling the plug: (Euthanasia)
Who is to decide

    Traditionally for over 700 years, the Anglo-American common law tradition has punished or otherwise disapproved of both suicide and assisting suicide. That suicide remained a grievous, though nonfelonious, wrong is confirmed by the fact that colonial and early state legislatures and courts did not retreat from prohibiting assisting suicide. Swift, in his early 19th century treatise on the laws of Connecticut, stated that "if one counsels another to commit suicide, and the other by reason of the advice kills himself, the advisor is guilty of murder as principal." (From Z. Swift, A Digest ofthe Laws of the State of Connecticut 270 (1823). The right to life and to personal security is not only

A Bit Adulterated....

This article is written by Sourya Banerjee.

Gender Justice

What’ common between the CEO of ICICI banks, the MD of Apollo Hospital Enterprises, the Indian Head of Facebook or the current leaders of the three most powerful political parties currently. Quite simple isn’t it? The only similarity is that they are all women. They are there at the top. From healthcare to banking to entertainment to politics. Then can they now be called the weaker sex?? Aren’t laws made to uplift this “weaker” sex going to hamper the other sex (yeah I mean us males)? It’s said that women were always the suppressed sex in India. But the catch word my dear friends is “were” not is! I think it’s high time the law changes to suit the times and eliminate major forms of gender discrimination. Because in the process of  trying to uplift one section, you push down the other side.

    The law which first comes into our eyes in this aspect is the Adultery Laws in India