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Showing posts with label Oregon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oregon. Show all posts
Friday, March 28, 2025

Reported Oregon Assisted Suicide Deaths Declined, But Do All Doctors Report?

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Prescriptions for life-ending medications under Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act (DWDA) increased between 2023 and 2024, while the number of ...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Assisted Suicide, Once Legal Inevitably Expands

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Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.  (pictured right). When a jurisdiction is debating an assisted suicid...
Saturday, February 22, 2025

Proposed Oregon Bill Would Allow Non-Physicians to Legally Participate in Assisted Suicide & Euthanasia

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By Leslie Wolfgang | February 18, 2025, 12:53pm  An Oregon bill would expand the state’s current law to permit physician assistants and nurs...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Nearly Every US State That Has Legalized Assisted Suicide, Has Expanded Its Law

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By Alex Schadenberg (pictured here) In 2019 Oregon expanded their assisted suicide law by giving doctors the ability to waive the 15 day wai...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Declaration of Jeanette Hall 2024

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Reformatted  for this site I, JEANETTE HALL (pictured with her son), declare as follows : 1.      I live in Oregon where assisted suicide is...
Monday, April 15, 2024

California Bill Blows the Eligibility for Assisted Suicide Wide Open

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By Diane Coleman, JD, President & CEO.  (pictured here). This letter is filed on behalf of Not Dead Yet, a national disability organizat...
Monday, March 4, 2024

24 Years Ago, Jeanette Hall Had Terminal Cancer And Wanted Assisted Suicide

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By Alex Schadenberg , material contributed by Margaret Dore I was speaking this weekend in Oregon and Dr Kenneth Stevens gave us an incredib...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Declaration of Jeanette Hall 23 Years After She Was Talked Out of Assisted Suicide in Oregon

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Jeanette with her son Scott, shortly after she changed her mind I, JEANETTE HALL, declare as follows: 1.  I live in Oregon where assisted su...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

New CDC Data Shows Suicide Was Leading Cause of Death Among Oregon Youth in 2018

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Note: Oregon's suicide rate began rising after physician-assisted suicide became legal in 1997. This is "the elephant in the living...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Purported Suicide Statistics Released in Vermont

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By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA According to  an article  in Monday's Vermont Digger:  The report released this week — which covered...
Saturday, November 2, 2019

Speaking in Washington State USA

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Margaret Dore This evening, Margaret Dore, a lawyer and president of Choice is an Illusion, was the featured speaker at St. Louise Paris...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

"Do or Refer" Doctors Are Not Allowed to Use Their Best Judgment for Individual Patients (No More Jeanette Halls)

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Jeanette Hall with her son Scott shortly after she changed her mind. Margaret Dore Esq., MBA* Yesterday, a doctor asked me about ...
Monday, September 17, 2018

The Letter the Kansas City Star Refused to Print

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Wrong on Suicide Dear Editor I am an attorney and president of Choice is an Illusion, a nonprofit corporation opposed to as...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Legal Assisted Suicide Encourages Other Suicide

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https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article216928250.html I am an attorney and president of Choice is an Illusion, a...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

Hey Kansas City Star: Oregon’s Suicide Rate Went Up 28.2%, Not Down! Correct This Error.

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On August 4, 2018, the  Kansas City Star  published this false statement: "National and state level data from the Centers for Disease...
Friday, February 9, 2018

"Prescribe or Refer" Is Anti-Patient: Doctors Are Not Allowed to Use Their Best Judgment for Individual Patients (No More Jeanette Halls)

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Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA By Margaret Dore Esq., MBA - updated 05/12/18 A Wisconsin bill seeking to legalize assisted suicide, requires t...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Victoria's Euthanasia Bill Is Not What it Was Promised to Be

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Fabian Stahle has issued a thoughtful and detailed report regarding Oregon's six months of live criteria, which is determined in practi...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Oregon Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia Law Applies to Diabetics

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The article below leaves out that "diabetes mellitus" (diabetes) is listed in Oregon's annual reports as an "underlyi...
Monday, October 30, 2017

Victoria's Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Bill: Oregon's Statistics Provide Little, If Any, Support for Passage Due to Physical Pain

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By Margaret Dore , Esq., MBA According to Oregon’s official government statistics, there were 47 people who died under its assisted suici...
Friday, August 18, 2017

In Oregon, Other Suicides Have Increased with the Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide

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By Margaret K. Dore, Esq. Since the passage of Oregon’s law allowing physician-assisted suicide, other suicides in Oregon have steadi...