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Medical Societies

Assisted Suicide Again on Agenda of AMA Meeting

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In October the American Medical Association’s Ethics Committee, following at least its third extensive study, advised the association to maintain its long-standing opposition to assisted suicide.   Here is a news story by Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2018/10/american-medical-association-ethics.html.  Here … [Read more...] about Assisted Suicide Again on Agenda of AMA Meeting

Hopeful News from the AMA House of Delegates

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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

Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Lecture Series: The Arguments Against Question 2

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The remarks below are directed to Question 2, a ballot measure that would legalize assisted suicide in Vermont's neighoring state of Massachusetts and are meant to explain the opposition of the Massachusetts Medical Society to that measure. The Vermont Medical Society and the American Medical association also are on record in opposition to assisted suicide. Dr. Aghababian … [Read more...] about Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Lecture Series: The Arguments Against Question 2

Head of German Medical Association: Physician-assisted Suicide “Something from a Madhouse”

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A disagreement has arisen in Germany over assisted suicide laws. During a discussion of how to implement a previous agreement by the coalition government to ban commercial assisted suicide, the country’s libertarian justice minister has proposed that the law exempt from prosecution any person or group offering “profit-free” assistance in suicide to a terminally ill person. This … [Read more...] about Head of German Medical Association: Physician-assisted Suicide “Something from a Madhouse”

Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians Declares Strong Opposition to Legalizing Euthanasia or Assisted Suicide

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Last week, the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians joined numerous other medical societies worldwide in declaring its strong opposition to the legalization of either assisted suicide or euthanasia. The Society's position statement, made in response to a government appointed advisory committee’s non-binding call for the legalization of euthanasia ( deemed safer … [Read more...] about Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians Declares Strong Opposition to Legalizing Euthanasia or Assisted Suicide