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Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Nevada Update: Hearing Cancelled
To read about problems with the bill, click here.
Tell the Nevada Legislature to Say "No" to SB 261
* SB 261 seeks to legalize physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia as those terms are traditionally
defined.
* Passing the proposed bill will encourage people with years or decades to live to throw away their lives.
* The bill is sold as voluntary, but does not even have a provision requiring administration of the lethal dose to be voluntary.
* Assisting persons can have their own agendas: an adult child wanting an inheritance; a financial predator seeking financial gain; or a doctor wanting to hide malpractice.
defined.
* Passing the proposed bill will encourage people with years or decades to live to throw away their lives.
* The bill is sold as voluntary, but does not even have a provision requiring administration of the lethal dose to be voluntary.
* Assisting persons can have their own agendas: an adult child wanting an inheritance; a financial predator seeking financial gain; or a doctor wanting to hide malpractice.
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Maine: Reject LD 347 & LD 1066
For legal analysis and back up documentation, click here and here. For a pdf handout version of this post, click here.
Highlights:
• LD 347 & LD 1066 apply to people with years or decades to live.
• Enacting either bill will encourage people with years or decades to live to throw away their lives.
• The bills are sold as providing a voluntary patient choice, but don’t even have a requirement of voluntariness or consent when the lethal dose is administered.
Sunday, April 2, 2017
Alaska Bill 54: Bad Things Happen in the Dark
By Margaret K. Dore, Esq., for a pdf version, click here.
HB 54 legalizes physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia as those terms are traditionally defined. The bill is based on a similar law in Oregon, which has a near complete lack of transparency.
HB 54 legalizes physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia as those terms are traditionally defined. The bill is based on a similar law in Oregon, which has a near complete lack of transparency.
If Alaska enacts HB 54 and follows Oregon practice, there will be a similar lack of transparency. The safely and welfare of individual patients will be unverifiable from Alaska State sources.
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Assisted suicide/euthanasia laws "surrounded by a sea of propaganda"
http://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/03/30/editorial/letters/state-needs-leaders-to-manage-airports/
Hawaii Bill is misleading, lacks protections
I was relieved to see a state House committee vote to delay consideration of Senate Bill 1129 [, which seeks to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia in Hawaii].
I attended the hearing at which [1129] was sold as completely voluntary, which isn’t true.
Hawaii Bill is misleading, lacks protections
I was relieved to see a state House committee vote to delay consideration of Senate Bill 1129 [, which seeks to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia in Hawaii].
I attended the hearing at which [1129] was sold as completely voluntary, which isn’t true.
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Hawaii Bill SB 1129 - “Choice” is a Big Fat Fib
Vote No on SB 1129 SD 2
No Assisted Suicide
No Euthanasia
Highlights:
• The act is sold as providing a voluntary patient choice, but doesn’t even have a requirement of voluntariness, capability or consent when the lethal dose is administered.
• People who ask about the act will lose their right to informed consent: They will lose the right to be told about alternatives for cure.
• The claim that self-administration is required is not true. The act says that a patient “may” self-administer the lethal dose. There is no language that administration “must” be by self-administration.
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