This is an urgent alert to all Vermonters. Please contact your senators immediately to express your opposition to legalizing assisted suicide and to ask them to work and vote against it. You can find contact information on the Vermont Legislature’s website. For an alphabetical listing, go to http://www.leg.state.vt.us/SenateMain.cfm . If you aren’t sure who your senator … [Read more...] about Urgent! Legislative Alert!
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Today in the Vermont Senate
Sen. Sears announced to the full Senate this afternoon that S 103 (the bill to legalize doctor-prescribed suicide) will not be coming out of his committee this session. The only way it could move is to attach it to another bill which is possible, but difficult. Following the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing held this past week, the Committee Chair, Senator Dick Sears had … [Read more...] about Today in the Vermont Senate
A Second Urgent Warning
We have now heard that at least one person who received the Zogby phone poll telephone call refused to answer any questions. That means one person who opposes assisted suicide failed to be counted. Please, if you get the call, take the survey. Just refuse to give your religion or answer the question about how many times you attend services each week. There are … [Read more...] about A Second Urgent Warning
URGENT! URGENT! BE WARNED!
We have just heard from a physician friend that she received a call this morning from a survey group clearly hired by the extremely well-funded proponents of assisted suicide and clearly designed to elicit answers that will allow them to tell Senators at the upcoming hearing on PAS that Vermonters support this dangerous initiative. You could receive this call any … [Read more...] about URGENT! URGENT! BE WARNED!
Urgent! Urgent! Urgent! Act Now!
The moment we’ve dreaded but for which we’ve been preparing has now arrived. This afternoon we received the news from Vermont Alliance for Ethical Health Care that the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on S. 103, the bill to legalize assisted suicide (PAS) in Vermont. We have since spoken with Senator Richard Sears, the chair of the Senate Judiciary … [Read more...] about Urgent! Urgent! Urgent! Act Now!