According to the New York Daily News, the Patients Rights Action Fund, a national group that has long opposed the legalization of assisted suicide, has a new president. He is 34 year old ex-marine JJ Hanson, who worked for NY Democrat governors Eliot Spitzer and David Patterson as Director of Regional Affairs for the mid-Hudson Valley … [Read more...] about Former Aide to NY Democrat Governors, Suffering from Brain Cancer, To Lead Fight Against Assisted Suicide in NY
US News and World Report: Assisted Suicide Deaths Use Execution Drug, Are Not Always Peaceful
True Dignity Vermont has posted four times about the risk that patients taking assisted suicide drugs may not experience the peaceful death sold to them by Compassion and Choices. In the article linked below, US News and World Report makes the same point, including the fact that the drug that is often used, Pentobarbitol, is the same one that has resulted in several botched … [Read more...] about US News and World Report: Assisted Suicide Deaths Use Execution Drug, Are Not Always Peaceful
Sad and Sick Beyond Belief: CA Governor Ignores the Certainty of Abuse and Error to Sign Assisted Suicide Law
California Governor Jerry Brown, who was fully informed about the dangers legal assisted suicide presents to literally everybody, rich or poor, abled or disabled, sick or well, young or old, nevertheless signed the state's assisted suicide bill into law today, saying he did it because he did not think it right to "make it a crime for a dying person to end his life". Brown … [Read more...] about Sad and Sick Beyond Belief: CA Governor Ignores the Certainty of Abuse and Error to Sign Assisted Suicide Law
Devastatingly Bad News, But Good News Too, on the Same Day
On Friday, September 11, the California Senate passed an assisted suicide bill, Abx2-15. The Senate had passed another assisted suicide bill; SB-128, in June, but it stalled in the Assembly Health Committee, because several Democrats expressed concerns about how the practice of assisted suicide might exacerbate class, race and disability-related inequalities in the healthcare … [Read more...] about Devastatingly Bad News, But Good News Too, on the Same Day
New Mexico Appeals Court Rules That Assisted Suicide Should Remain Illegal
On August 12, 2015, a New Mexico appeals court overturned a lower court ruling legalizing assisted suicide and directing that it not considered suicide in that state. Here is a link to this extremely good news: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/11/new-mexico-court-of-appeals-strikes-down-right-to-/. Even in the wake of all the publicity surrounding the Brittany … [Read more...] about New Mexico Appeals Court Rules That Assisted Suicide Should Remain Illegal