Mr. Tom Curran:

That is one of the reasons we looked at Oregon as being the most likely to work here. The safeguards it has put in are as foolproof as one will get. The argument put forward earlier against Oregon is that it is widening it. That is its choice, however. The safeguards are still in place and still work. It has decided to widen it to people with psychiatric illnesses. That is Oregon's choice. However, the safeguards still hold.

Whether we widen it to that extent is entirely up to ourselves. As my mother used to say, if Johnny puts his finger in the fire, do you have to do it as well? We can tailor our particular situation to suit our ethics and our set of morals. Just because Holland does it in a particular way, which I do not necessarily agree with, does not mean we have to do it that way as well. It is taking the best part of some of regimes like Oregon's. We picked Oregon because the safeguards it put in are as foolproof as one will get.