LETTER submitted to the Senate Appropriations Committee (edited for the web):
Please accept this cover letter and memo in opposition to SB 128 for the purpose of the May 11th hearing.
Based on the "Oregon experience," passage of SB 128 has the potential for a large and adverse financial impact on the state of California. The cover letter explains why as follows:
Based on the "Oregon experience," passage of SB 128 has the potential for a large and adverse financial impact on the state of California. The cover letter explains why as follows:
SB 128 seeks to legalize physician-assisted suicide.
In Oregon, which has had a similar law since 1997, legalization is statistically correlated with an increase in other suicides. This increase is consistent with a suicide contagion in which the legalization of one type of suicide (physician-assisted) has led to an increase in other (conventional) suicides. Moreover, the financial cost is "enormous." A government report from Oregon states:
"In 2010 alone, self-inflicted injury hospitalization charges exceeded 41 million dollars." (Emphasis added).Here are the full links:
https://choiceisanillusion.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/dore-ltr-ca-sen-appr-com_001.pdf
https://choiceisanillusion.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/sb-128-senate-appropriations-memo-updated.pdf
Thank you for your consideration.
Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA, President
Choice is an Illusion, a nonprofit corporation
Law Offices of Margaret K. Dore, P.S.
www.choiceillusion.org
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