Patient Choices Vermont (PCV) appears to be trying to drum up users for Act 39. It seems that some 108 requests for a lethal prescription (87 of which were used) since 2013 aren’t enough, and they hope that S.74 will help make it easier to end the lives of more people using doctor-prescribed lethal drugs. Briefly, the changes proposed under S.74 are as … [Read more...] about S.74: A step down the slippery slope
Murder Invitation
Don’t Buy the Myth that Oregon’s Assisted Suicide Law Has Been Free of Abuse
This week's hearings in the Vermont legislature will certainly feature claims that the Oregon assisted suicide ;aw is "safe", that it has been free from abuse over its 16 year existence. That is an assertion no one can make. Oregon conceals the data about individual deaths, citing "privacy" rights. Oregon's annual reports give only general statistics, and Oregon doctor … [Read more...] about Don’t Buy the Myth that Oregon’s Assisted Suicide Law Has Been Free of Abuse
Oregon Lawyer’s Letter to the Editor about Why Assisted Suicide Laws Are an Invitation to Murder
We have written before about how proponents of assisted suicide claim many people who obtain the lethal prescriptions there never use them. They even assert that some people live longer once they know they have the means to end their lives if they find them unbearable. If there assertions are true, it is shocking that we will never know how many patients who did die under the … [Read more...] about Oregon Lawyer’s Letter to the Editor about Why Assisted Suicide Laws Are an Invitation to Murder