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Vermont

Vermont Center for Independent Living Continues to Oppose Physician Prescribed Suicide: Testimony of Executive Director Sarah Launderville before the House Human Services Committee

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Below in italics is the testimony of Sarah Launderville, the executive director of  the Vermont Center for Independent Living, a statewide organization that advocates for the right of people with disabilities to receive the help they need to live in their own homes.  Its website is http://www.vcil.org. According to Launderville, the members of VCIL, in opposing assisted … [Read more...] about Vermont Center for Independent Living Continues to Oppose Physician Prescribed Suicide: Testimony of Executive Director Sarah Launderville before the House Human Services Committee

Urgent Alert: Call Your Representatives This Weekend, and Testify at the Public Hearings on Tuesday

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NOW is the time to call your representative.  Emails are acceptable, but calls are more effective; and the weekend is the time to find your rep at home.  Contact information is available here: http://www.leg.state.vt.us/legdir/districts.cfm?Body=H. Tell him or her that you do not want legal assisted suicide in Vermont. For talking points, read Donna Scott’s letter to … [Read more...] about Urgent Alert: Call Your Representatives This Weekend, and Testify at the Public Hearings on Tuesday

The Mere Presence of Legal Assisted Suicide Would Steer Some to Suicide and Doctors Will Be Forced Either to Prescribe or to Refer Patients to Doctors Who Will: Testimony of Oregon Doctor Kenneth Stevens before the VT House Human Services Committee

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The witness of choice for the proponents of assisted suicide in Vermont seems to be George Eighmey,  a lawyer, not a doctor.  Below, in italics,  is what Kenneth Stevens MD, who has practiced medicine in Oregon for 40 years, told the Human Services Committee about, among other things, Eighmey, his advocacy organization, Compassion and Choices, and its role in facilitating … [Read more...] about The Mere Presence of Legal Assisted Suicide Would Steer Some to Suicide and Doctors Will Be Forced Either to Prescribe or to Refer Patients to Doctors Who Will: Testimony of Oregon Doctor Kenneth Stevens before the VT House Human Services Committee

Second Thoughts’ John Kelly Testifies before Vermont Lawmakers, Demolishing the Idea that Assisted Suicide Has Ever Been Safe or Can Ever Be Made Safe

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In italics below, posted with permission, is the brilliant testimony John Kelly gave this afternoon before the House Human Services Committee. Testimony Before Vermont House Human Services Committee, April 11, 2013 Opposing The Legalization of Assisted Suicide John B. Kelly On behalf of Not Dead Yet and Massachusetts Second Thoughts www.notdeadyet.org          … [Read more...] about Second Thoughts’ John Kelly Testifies before Vermont Lawmakers, Demolishing the Idea that Assisted Suicide Has Ever Been Safe or Can Ever Be Made Safe

Little New at Vermont House Hearings on Assisted Suicide

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As we expected, the hearings in the Vermont House today contained nothing we had not already heard in the Senate. Even the witnesses were pretty much the same, except for Vermont Attorney General Sorell, who called assisted suicide the next human rights issue. It astonishes us that he could think of assisted suicide as a human right, when he had just heard the Vermont Medical … [Read more...] about Little New at Vermont House Hearings on Assisted Suicide