prison population. does that show, as iowa supreme court chief justice mark cady says, significant racial disparities in our system? if so, what can be done? what is the purpose of prison anyway, punishment, rehabilitation, the protection of society? what kinds of principles should guide us as we work toward criminal justice reform? we have a great panel today to discus sentencing reform in criminal justice. to my left, jerry vander sanden, a linn county attorney. thanks for being on again, gerry. jerry: good morning. it s great to be here. scott : sara riley, an attorney at tom riley law firm. sara, thanks for being on. sara: thank you for having me. scott : at the end, justin lightfoot, an assistant us attorney. thanks for being on, justin. justin: good morning. scott : well, okay, jerry, maybe we can start with you. for, now decades now, we ve been getting tough on crime. have we gotten too tough? are our sentencing procedures too much? jerry: well, you re right, we have g
others fear a slippery slope that would eventually lead us to value some lives more than others. should iowa pass an aid ii dying law? do we have an absolute right over our own lives? should physicians help us to die on our own terms? or do we have a moral obligation to accept our lives a.d our deathson terms other than our own will? ? have a greattanel on today to discuss these issues. to my left is becky benson, the director of the university of iowa pediatric palliative care program. thanks so much for being on, becky. becky benson: thank you. scott samuelson: francis degnin, a professor of ilosophy at university of northern iowa. thanks for being on francis. francis degnin: thank you. scott samuelson: at the end, linda livingston, a pastor at ascension lutheran church, linda, thank you for being on. linda livingsto: it s good to be here. scott samuelson: okay, well becky, let s just sttt off with the big have a law that allows mentally competent, terminally ill adults to
linda livingsto: it s good to be here. scott samuelson: okay, well becky, let s just start off with the big question. should iowa have a law that allows mentally competent, terminally ill adults to voluntarily request and receive drugs to end their own lives? becky benson: well, i think that s a very difficult question. i think my first answer to that would be that i don t think that that s the best solution to how do we take better care of people at the end of their lives. i think that putting more money and emphasis into palliative care programs and really i think we ve become disconnected from the natural prprcess of dying in america and we like the idea of control. that s a very unifying principle for most americans is we like to control when things happen but i think that death is a mystery in some ways, and it happens on itssown timeline. i feel that we shohold have more people who can guide us through that process well, rather than try to wrench control over it. i thin
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