Barbara Lyons of the Patient Rights Action Fund (609-759-0322, Ext 501) reports this afternoon that not all the news from the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates meeting was as bad as it seemed. True Dignity reported on June 11, 2018 that the delegates had not accepted the recommendation of the AMA’s ethics board that it refuse to call assisted suicide by the … [Read more...] about Hopeful News from the AMA House of Delegates
The Elephant in the Room
Numerous news reports and editorials have flooded media outlets over the past two weeks following the tragic deaths by suicide of two celebrities, concurrently with the release of a CDC study confirming a significant rise in suicide nationwide over the past 20 years. There has been speculation about the role played by depression and other mental illness in these deaths, and … [Read more...] about The Elephant in the Room
Full AMA House of Delegates Sends Assisted Suicide Back to Ethics Board for Further Review
Defying the advice of its own ethics committee to continue calling assisted suicide what it really is and to continue opposing it, the full AMA House of Delegates, with a 56% majority, today asked the ethics committee to reconsider its decision, made after two years of study. The ethics committee will issue another report before the 2019 meeting of the House of … [Read more...] about Full AMA House of Delegates Sends Assisted Suicide Back to Ethics Board for Further Review
CA Assisted Suicide Law Overturned
A CA Superior Court Judge has declared CA’s assisted suicide law to be unconstitutional, on the narrow ground of its adoption during a special 2016 session called to address health care efficiency and funding rather than during the regular session, during which it had failed to pass … [Read more...] about CA Assisted Suicide Law Overturned
AMA Ethics Board Maintains Opposition to Assisted Suicide, Refuses to Call It “Aid in Dying”
On May 4, 2018, ethicist Wesley Smith reported the good news that the American Medical Association’s Ethics Board, after a two year period of study, has rejected a proposal that the organization withdraw its opposition to assisted suicide through the mechanism of giving it the supposedly more acceptable name, “aid in dying”. The committee pointed out that “aid in dying” is an … [Read more...] about AMA Ethics Board Maintains Opposition to Assisted Suicide, Refuses to Call It “Aid in Dying”