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I. IDENTITY OF AMICUS
Margaret Dore is a licensed attorney in good standing in Washington State where assisted suicide is legal. She is appearing pro se.
Dore is a former Law Clerk to the Washington State Supreme Court and the Washington State Court of Appeals. She worked for a year with the United States Department of Justice and has been in private practice since 1990. She is also president of two nonprofit corporations opposed to assisted suicide and euthanasia:
Choice is an Illusion, a 501(c)4 nonprofit corporation; and the
Foundation for Choice is an Illusion, a 501(c)3 public charity.
Dore has personally appeared and testified against assisted suicide and/or euthanasia in at least 20 US legislatures, and also internationally. Her CV is attached in the appendix, at
pages A-1 through A-4. For more information see
www.margaretdore.org and
www.choiceillusion.org.
II. STATEMENT OF RELIEF SOUGHT
Invalidation of the
Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act (“the Act”).[1]
The report released this week — which covered the two years between July 1, 2017, June 30, 2019 — said that 34 patients qualified for the terminal prescriptions under Vermont’s law. Of those, 24 had cancer, four had ALS, three had neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Huntington’s, and three others had unspecified conditions.
