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Monday, February 26, 2018
Friday, February 23, 2018
New Hampshire: Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia Study Bill Rejected for Now
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Senator Donna Soucy, Esq. |
SB 490 was a gateway to assisted suicide, and the Senate just slammed it shut for now
On a 12-10 vote, the New Hampshire Senate has killed a bill that would have paved the way for assisted suicide. I did not see that result coming. Thank-yous are in order, including one I didn’t think I’d ever be writing.
Voting “inexpedient to legislate,” sending the bill into the trash heap: Senators Bob Giuda, James Gray, Harold French, Ruth Ward, Gary Daniels, Kevin Avard, John Reagan, Donna Soucy, Regina Birdsell, Chuck Morse, William Gannon, and Dan Innis. If any one of them had voted differently, today’s outcome would have been different.
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Utah: House Passes Bill Criminalizing Assisted Suicide
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Rep Michael McKell |
The Utah House passed a bill Tuesday that would criminalize helping someone commit suicide — despite some concern from lawmakers that the bill could unintentionally target physicians or family members of terminally ill patients.
Rep. Michael McKell, R-Spanish Fork, has sponsored House Bill 86, which would amend Utah’s manslaughter statute to include assisted suicide. This means a person would be guilty of a second-degree felony — which is punishable by up to 15 years in prison — if prosecutors can prove he or she provided “the physical means” for someone to commit suicide.
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 |
A Wisconsin bill seeking to legalize assisted suicide, requires the patient's attending physician to "prescribe or refer" i.e., to write a lethal prescription for the purpose of killing the patient, or to make an effective referral to another physician, who will do it.
The bill, AB 216, also says that the attending physician's failure to comply is "unprofessional conduct" such that the physician would be subject to discipline. The bill states:
[F]ailure of an attending physician to fulfill a request for medication [the lethal dose] constitutes unprofessional conduct if the attending physician refuses or fails to make a good faith attempt to transfer the requester's care and treatment to another physician who will act as attending physician under this chapter and fulfill the request for medication. (Emphasis added).*A significance of prescribe or refer is that it's anti-patient, by not allowing doctors to use their best judgment for individual patients.
Monday, January 29, 2018
Vermont Report on Assisted Suicide (and Euthanasia)
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On January 15, 2018, the Vermont Department of Health presented its first report to the legislature and public on the implementation of the state’s physician assisted suicide [and euthanasia] law. The legislature had passed the law, Act 39, in 2013 and replaced it in 2015 with Act 27, which maintains Act 39 under “Oregon-style” regulations, including a requirement for biennial reporting.
The law has been in effect for four years, and the current report covers all of them.
Friday, January 26, 2018
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Delaware: Death Certificate Falsification Requires Opposition to HB 160
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Kirk Allison, PhD |
I directed the Program in Human Rights and Health at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health from 2006-2016 and am a past chair of the American Public Health Association's Ethics Special Primary Interest Group (now Ethics Section).
While working on my dissertation I was a visiting preceptor (research rotation) at the Hennepin County (Minnesota) Medical Examiner's Office. It was greatly impressed upon me the need for scientific accuracy in the medico-legal documentations of death.
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 practice to include people with years to live, and not necessarily on a voluntary basis.
The material below is on page 4 of his report, regarding Victoria, which recently enacted a similar standard. I urge readers to also consider his entire report at this link.
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Utah: Assisting In Suicide Should Have Legal Recourse
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Occasionally, someone commits a crime so heinous and disturbing it leads to demands for specific changes in law. Such is the case in Utah in the wake of the suicide of a 16-year-old girl and the efforts of a young man accused of helping, abetting and encouraging her.
A bill before the Utah Legislature would add assisted suicide to the state’s manslaughter statute. That is an appropriate measure that could give law enforcement authorities more prosecutorial leverage.
Iowa: "Slippery Slope" Is Real
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In the past, Editorial Page Editor Mr. Jon Alexander has rightly advocated for the importance of research in public policy. However, he seems to have set aside his own advice in this case. A careful look at the data from around the world would have revealed that, far from being a “red herring,” the “slippery slope” argument is based not on irrational fear, but on solid information.
Oregon Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia Law Applies to Diabetics
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Click here to view a declaration by Oregon doctor, William Toffler, explaining why this is true. Click here to view the report by Fabian Stahle, quoted below.
Diabetics Eligible For Assisted Suicide & in Oregon, State Official Say
By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times - January 11, 2018
Thursday, January 4, 2018
Patients Unprotected Due to "Eraser" Clause (Paragraph 25)
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Debating Chamber |
New Zealand's bill seeking to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia has passed first reading.[1]
The bill's explanatory note claims that patients will be protected by a "comprehensive set of provisions to ensure free choice, made without coercion." In fact, patients who die under the bill will not even be protected against predators who willfully fail to follow the touted provisions.
Saturday, December 30, 2017
Update: Woman Who Mistakenly Thought She had a Terminal Illness Meets Her Rescuers
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BC: A Ladysmith artist who survived five hours in the frigid waters of the Salish Sea in late October and the rescuers who gave her a second chance at life were both struck with emotion as they met again in Ladysmith on Sunday.
“They were absolutely amazing and so compassionate and it was just such a beautiful meeting – I totally remembered the faces of the two guys that pulled me out of the water, ” said Mya DeRyan.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Woman Tries To Kill Herself After Terminal Diagnosis Only To Find Out It Was Wrong
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After receiving a terminal diagnosis, Mya DeRyan decided to end her life on her own terms -- but things didn't quite go as planned.
A Canadian woman has discovered a “new lease on life” after a close call with death.
Last month, Mya DeRyan was fished from the frigid waters off the coast of Vancouver, after jumping from the deck of a ferry.
Monday, December 4, 2017
Is Self-Administration Enforceable?
By Margaret Dore, Esq.
Victoria's deceptively named Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill uses the term, "self-administer," at least 30 times.[1] Indeed, self-administration of the lethal dose was a major selling point of the bill, to convince the public and Parliament that patients would be in control.
But, the term is not defined.
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