Your Senators need to hear from you during town meeting week. Thanks in part to you, the Senate voted last week to postpone a vote on a bill related to Act 39, the law that legalized doctor-prescribed suicide, until Wednesday, March 11th. Your Senators are home all of this week for Town Meeting Day and to spend time listening to constituent concerns. Now is the time to call, … [Read more...] about Talk to your senators during Town Meeting
Repeal Effort
A Deep and Tragic Irony: In VT Lawmakers Praise Suicide Prevention Efforts While Legally Enabling Suicide
The following resolution praising the state's suicide prevention workers was presented today in the VT House: http://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/2016/Docs/RESOLUTN/HCR039/HCR039%20As%20Introduced.pdf. Among the choice quotes: "...suicide is a public health issue that affects individuals and families of all ages, socio--economic strata, ethnicities, and … [Read more...] about A Deep and Tragic Irony: In VT Lawmakers Praise Suicide Prevention Efforts While Legally Enabling Suicide
Time to Take a 2nd Look at Vermont’s Assisted Suicide Law? Time to Repeal It!
Well the people who got the dangerous Vermont assisted suicide law through the legislature in 2013 have now decided it needs to be made "safer", meaning more like the Oregon and Washington laws. An AP article to which we won't link has appeared in several newspapers this morning. This time we at True Dignity agree with the hawkers of assisted suicide. The Vermont law, … [Read more...] about Time to Take a 2nd Look at Vermont’s Assisted Suicide Law? Time to Repeal It!
Burlington Free Press Article: Comments Urgently Needed
Here's a link to the BFP news story about the effort by Vermont Alliance for Ethical Health Care to repeal Vermont's assisted suicide law (http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20130819/NEWS03/308190033/vt-Buzz-Ad-calls-repeal-end-life-law). Comments in opposition to the law are urgently needed, especially from medical professionals and lawmakers. It is disappointing, … [Read more...] about Burlington Free Press Article: Comments Urgently Needed