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Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Why DC Act 21-577 Must Be Rejected
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Dr. Charles Bentz, MD, Joins Choice is an Illusion Board
Our Board Members are Margaret K. Dore, Esq., MBA, Dr. Charles J. Bentz, MD and Kate Kelly, B.ED, B.A.
He is a primary care physician specializing in Internal Medicine in Oregon, OR.
Dr. Bentz has extensive work in tobacco cessation programs and policies in both health care and commercial businesses.
Welcome Dr. Bentz!
“Choice” is an Illusion thanks and appreciates Elizabeth Poiana for her contributions and service as a 2016 Board Member.
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Quick Facts: District of Columbia B21-38
By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA
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Margaret Dore Esq., MBA, Councilmember Yvette Alexander |
1. Overview
B21-38 legalizes physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia as those terms are traditionally defined. Legally authorized participants include health care providers and family members.
2. Definitions
Assisted suicide means that someone provides the means and/or information for another person to commit suicide. When a physician is involved,
Saturday, October 29, 2016
The Oregon Experience is B.S.
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The claim by assisted suicide proponents, that Oregon's law is safe, cannot be independently verified: (1) Studies making the claim are invalid; (2) Oregon's data cannot be verified; and (3) Even law enforcement is denied access to information.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Soyer: Who has the Choice in Assisted Suicide?
http://daily-iowan.com/2016/10/25/soyer-who-has-the-choice-in-assisted-suicide
I am a very large supporter of individual choices and the right for individuals to make choices in regard to their own lives. Though, in the context of California’s most recent legislation concerning assisted suicide, the idea of “choice” may be disputed rather than upheld.
Stephanie Packer, a woman living in California who has a terminal form of scleroderma, an autoimmune disease, recently came out saying that her insurance company denied her coverage of chemotherapy but said it would cover doctor-assisted suicide. The insurance originally was going to cover her chemo, but then the End of Life Option Act went into effect on June 9. . .
Soon after this law was passed, Packer received a letter from her insurance company saying it was no longer going to cover her treatment, although the life-ending drugs would be covered.
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Hannah Soyer |
Stephanie Packer, a woman living in California who has a terminal form of scleroderma, an autoimmune disease, recently came out saying that her insurance company denied her coverage of chemotherapy but said it would cover doctor-assisted suicide. The insurance originally was going to cover her chemo, but then the End of Life Option Act went into effect on June 9. . .
Soon after this law was passed, Packer received a letter from her insurance company saying it was no longer going to cover her treatment, although the life-ending drugs would be covered.
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Brittany Maynard's Story Sends the Wrong Message to Young People
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Will Johnston, MD |
I agree with the Gazette editorial board that legal assisted suicide sends the wrong message to young people. ("Vote 'no' on more suicide," 09/26/16). I also write to describe the damaging impact of the highly publicized case of Brittany Maynard, on my young adult patient who became actively suicidal after watching her video. I understand that her story is now being used to promote assisted suicide legalization in Colorado.
Ms. Maynard died in November 2014. A month later, I was presented with my young adult patient during an emergency appointment. He was physically healthy. His mother told me that he had been acting oddly and talking about death.
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Montana: Say "No" to the Oregon Experience
By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA
To view pdf version with footnotes, click here.
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and long-lasting.
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Denver Post Switches Sides: Votes "NO" on Prop. 106
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Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Nancy Valko on Oregon: What hides in the dark?
"No other area of medical practice-even lethal injection-is allowed such secrecy and immunity." Nancy Valko, RN
Edited by Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA
Note two provisions in Oregon's law:
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"What hides in the dark?" |
Note two provisions in Oregon's law:
“The Health Services shall make rules to facilitate the collection of information regarding compliance with ORS 127.800 to 127.897. Except as otherwise required by law, the information collected shall not be a public record and may not be made available for inspection by the public.” (Only an “an annual statistical report of information” is made public.) (Emphasis added.)
And
“No person shall be subject to civil or criminal liability or professional disciplinary action for participating in good faith compliance with ORS 127.800 to 127.897. ” (Emphasis added.)
There is also no requirement that the doctor or anyone else witness or even be present at the lethal overdose.
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Colorado Springs Gazette Editorial Board: "Vote 'no' on more suicide"
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Proposition 106 would establish the assisted suicide trade for doctors willing to participate. An out-of-state special interest, funded mostly by billionaire George Soros, has marketed this measure as a form of compassion.
Suicide rates are a crisis in Colorado, and a poorly written plan to legitimize these tragedies raises big concerns.
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
NEW DATE! Early Warning: Enjoy an Interesting Evening In Missoula Montana
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Rep. Brad Tschida |
Rolling Back the Suicide Epidemic:
Why are Physician-Assisted Suicide
Why are Physician-Assisted Suicide
and Euthanasia Bad News for Montana?
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Senator Jennifer Fielder |
- Brad
Tschida, Montana State Representative, a legislative leader in the fight to
prevent suicide.
- Jennifer
Fielder, Montana State Senator, a legislative leader in the fight to prevent suicide.
- Philip
Tummarello, retired Sgt. Inspector of the San Francisco Police Department, who implemented and
supervised the San Francisco Elder Abuse Task Force.
- Margaret Dore, a lawyer in Washington State where assisted suicide and euthanasia are legal, and president of Choice is an Illusion, a nonprofit corporation.
Saturday, August 27, 2016
DC Bill: Patients Have No Right to be Told of Options for Cure or to Extend Life; Patient Choice is Not Assured
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"Ejusdem generis, Latin for "of the same kind.” |
"Ejusdem generis" is Latin for "of the same kind."[1] The phrase is also a rule of statutory construction, which is used to interpret loosely written statutes[2]. The rule states:
"Where a law lists specific classes of persons or things and then refers to them in general, the general statements only apply to the same kind of persons or things specifically listed. Example: if a law refers to automobiles, trucks, tractors, motorcycles and other motor-powered vehicles, 'vehicles' would not include airplanes, since the list was of land-based transportation." (Emphasis added). [3]
Friday, August 12, 2016
'Death with Dignity' Imperils the Poor
Reprint from 2004
http://realchangenews.org/index.php/site/archives/9122
Last week’s article by an assisted suicide/euthanasia advocate struck me as a bizarre article
Monday, August 1, 2016
Oregon: Jury awards$3 million to fired nurse who complained of 'rushing patients through' to save money
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/09/jury_awards_3_million_to_legac.html
By Aimee Green
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A Portland jury on Friday awared a nurse more than $3 million -- agreeing that she was wrongfully terminated by
Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center after she complained to management that cost cutting measures were jeopardizing patient care. Registered nurse Linda Boly said Saturday that she felt vindicated by the verdict. She hopes it sends a "big message" to Legacy Health System that "rushing patients through" the process endangers them. . . .
To read the rest of the article, click here.
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A Portland jury on Friday awared a nurse more than $3 million -- agreeing that she was wrongfully terminated by
Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center after she complained to management that cost cutting measures were jeopardizing patient care. Registered nurse Linda Boly said Saturday that she felt vindicated by the verdict. She hopes it sends a "big message" to Legacy Health System that "rushing patients through" the process endangers them. . . .
To read the rest of the article, click here.
Thursday, July 28, 2016
The ADA: A Gift From the Disability Community to the Non-Disabled, Improving Access for All
http://www.npr.org/2015/07/24/423230927/-a-gift-to-the-non-disabled-at-25-the-ada-improves-access-for-all
From NPR's Joseph Shapiro, published last year.
When the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became law 25 years ago, "everybody was thinking about the iconic person in a wheelchair," says civil rights lawyer Sid Wolinsky. Or that the ADA — which bans discrimination based on disability — was for someone who is deaf, or blind.
But take a tour of New York City with Wolinsky — and the places he sued there — and you will see how the ADA has helped not just people with those significant disabilities, but also people with minor disabilities, and people with no disability at all.
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"This elevator is a gift from the disability community and the ADA to the nondisabled people of New York," said civil rights lawyer, Sid Wolinsky. |
When the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became law 25 years ago, "everybody was thinking about the iconic person in a wheelchair," says civil rights lawyer Sid Wolinsky. Or that the ADA — which bans discrimination based on disability — was for someone who is deaf, or blind.
But take a tour of New York City with Wolinsky — and the places he sued there — and you will see how the ADA has helped not just people with those significant disabilities, but also people with minor disabilities, and people with no disability at all.
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Press Release: Bill Will Allow "the Perfect Crime," Encourage People "to Throw Away Their Lives"
For print version, click here.
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Salt Lake City, UT -- Attorney Margaret Dore, president of Choice is an Illusion, which has fought assisted suicide legalization efforts in many states, and now Utah, made the following statement in connection with a bill pending before the Utah Legislature. (HB 264).
"The bill has an application process to obtain the lethal dose," said Dore. "The process includes a written lethal dose request form with two required witnesses. One of the witnesses is allowed to be the patient's heir who will financially benefit from the patient's death."
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Utah: Testimony of Kenneth Stevens MD Opposing Assisted Suicide
To view testimony as a pdf, click here.
1. I
strongly urge you to Vote No on HB 264, which seeks to legalize physician
assisted suicide in Utah
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Photo of me and my patient Jeanette Hall, 15 years after I talked her out of assisted suicide in Oregon Photo credit - Daily Signal |
I am a cancer doctor in Oregon, where
physician-assisted suicide is legal. I was also raised in Logan, graduated from
USU, and received my MD from the University of Utah Medical School 50 years ago.
I am Professor Emeritus and former chair of the Department of Radiation
Oncology at Oregon Health and Science University. I regularly visit Utah. I continue to practice in my cancer medical
specialty.
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