The House will be in recess for dinner until 7:45, when debate will begin. VPR will be live streaming the debate. … [Read more...] about Motion to Postpone Debate for an Indefinite Time Defeated
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Vermont Public Radio Live Streaming the House Debate on the Oregon Style Assisted Suicide Bill
Go to www.vpr.net. At the top of the page, on the left, click the tab "Listen Live". You will bring up a menu, from which you should should choose, "Vermont State House". … [Read more...] about Vermont Public Radio Live Streaming the House Debate on the Oregon Style Assisted Suicide Bill
House Judiciary Committee Sends Oregon Style Assisted Suicide Bill to the Full House for a Vote: Please Call Your Representatives and Ask Them to Vote NO.
By an 8-4 vote, the House Judiciary Committee yesterday passed an assisted suicide bill modeled after Oregon's. The committee struck several amendments designed to convince members that our law would have better safeguards, as if that were possible anyway. The bill will come to a vote in the full House on Tuesday. If it passes on first reading, there will be a second and … [Read more...] about House Judiciary Committee Sends Oregon Style Assisted Suicide Bill to the Full House for a Vote: Please Call Your Representatives and Ask Them to Vote NO.
Assisted Suicide for the Terminally Ill is Just “the First Step”
Below, in italics, is the excellent testimony Vermonter Kathleen Grange gave at the public hearing before the House Human Services and Judiciary Committees last week. Based on what she heard with her own ears, she told the committees, "The slippery slope is here!" There was another witness, a medical doctor, who planned to tell the committees that he had heard the same thing … [Read more...] about Assisted Suicide for the Terminally Ill is Just “the First Step”
S. 77 Restored to Oregon-Style Form, Passed by House Human Services Committee and Sent to Judiciary
As expected, the House Human Services Committee has rewritten S.77 so that it is once more an Oregon-style assisted suicide bill. The bill now goes to the Judiciary Committee, which is expected to send it to the House floor with few or no changes. This is a terrible, dangerous bill. It is ironic that Representative Haas, who insists that assisted suicide has a track record … [Read more...] about S. 77 Restored to Oregon-Style Form, Passed by House Human Services Committee and Sent to Judiciary