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Showing posts with label Massachusetts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Massachusetts. Show all posts
Thursday, June 13, 2024

Support for Assisted Suicide Is Up, But the Slope It Would Lead to Is Dangerously Slippery.

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By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist Updated June 12, 2024, 3:00 a.m. The most chilling detail in “Better Off Dead?” a new BBC documentary by the...
Friday, February 18, 2022

EPC - USA Files Brief to Massachusetts Supreme Court in the Kligler Assisted Suicide Case

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Alex Schadenberg,  Executive Directive, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition In January 2020 the assisted suicide lobby appealed a Massachusetts ...
Friday, June 12, 2020

Massachusetts: Assisted Suicide Bill Timing "Wrong"

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T o view full press release on Not Dead Yet,  click here .                      John Kelly Second Thoughts Massachusetts  issues ...
Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Massachusetts Euthanasia Bills Have Reportedly Moved Out of Committee

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State House According to unconfirmed sources, the Massachusetts "End of Life Options Act," seeking to legalize assisted suicid...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Prosecutors argue why Michelle Carter's texting suicide conviction should not be overturned

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Michelle Carter To view full article,  click here Bristol County Prosecutors have filed their response to the appeal of Michelle Carte...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

Massachusetts: Michelle Carter Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter Due to Assisting Suicide

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Conrad Roy III NPR    A Massachusetts judge has found Michelle Carter guilty of involuntary manslaughter after, prosecutors say, the th...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Massachusetts Assisted Suicide Bill Dies in Committee!

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From  Second Thoughts, Massachusetts , People with Disabilities Opposing the Legalization of Assisted Suicide: Today, the Joint Commi...
Saturday, November 14, 2015

Persons Living with HIV/AIDS: Is This What You Want?

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By Margaret Dore, Esq This is an updated version of an article I wrote three years ago in response to HIV/AIDS groups that had endorsed...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Massachusetts: High School Student Charged with Manslaughter for Encouraging Suicide

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http://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/kp-student-charged-with-manslaughter-in- fairhaven-friend-s-death/article_821a5d5e-be30-1...
Saturday, December 22, 2012

Mass: Inclusion Key in anti suicide drive

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/14/inclusion-key-in-anti-suicide-drive/#disqus_thread By Valerie Richardson , The Washingto...
Monday, December 10, 2012

Massachusetts: Support withered for assisted-suicide ballot question

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http://www.lowellsun.com/todaysheadlines/ci_22157064/support-withered-assisted-suicide-ballot-question#ixzz2Egbgwy23   By Chris...
Saturday, November 3, 2012

Those who are not dying can be lured to assisted suicide

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http://bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2012/11/02/those-who-are-not-dying-can-lured-assisted-suicide/mYhNV8k6hWseAFwSxdCnIL/story.html I a...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Killing with kindness: Why the Death With Dignity Act endangers people with disabilities

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http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/146648-killing-with-kindness-why-the-death-with-dignity-/#ixzz2AvS5wlXH   By S.J. Rosenbaum I think m...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Assisted Suicide Users are Older People with Money

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By Margaret Dore, Esq., Updated October 29, 2012 Users of assisted suicide in Oregon and Washington are overwhelmingly white and generall...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Legalization And Violent Deaths

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By Margaret Dore Assisted suicide proponents claim that legal assisted suicide will prevent violent deaths such as those by murd...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Massachusetts: Bob Joyce on Elder Abuse, etc. - Vote No on Question 2

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Dear Editor: It's not clear why The Bulletin titled Joe Galeota's recent column as it did ["Terrible," October 11, 2012]. ...

Persons Living With HIV/AIDS: Is This What You Want? To be Just Like Us?

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By Margaret Dore, Esq. Some HIV/AIDS groups have endorsed Ballot Question 2, which seeks to legalize assisted suicide in Massachusetts ...
Saturday, October 13, 2012

Massachusetts: Vote no on Question 2

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"Ignoring any moral issues, the initiative is vulnerable to abuse and should not be passed into law." By Anthony Speranza http://...
Monday, October 1, 2012

Massachusetts: Ballot Question 2, Whose Choice?

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"[This] would be on an involuntary basis for those persons who want to live." By Margaret Dore I am an attorney in Washing...
Friday, August 31, 2012

New England Journal of Medicine Article Misleading

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Dear Editor: I am a lawyer in Washington State, one of two states where assisted-suicide is legal.  The other state is Oregon, which has a...