"Choice" Is An Illusion: No on ABX2-15: Voices Against Assisted-Suicide!

1. Carolyn McMurray:"Not everyone has family members to protect them."

2. Will Johnston, MD, "[My] young adult patient became actively suicidal after watching a Brittany Maynard video.”

3. Oregon doctor, Kenneth Stevens, MD, "Vote against ABX2-15, in order to save people’s lives!"

4. Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA (“Legal assisted-suicide can be traumatic for patients and tear families apart”).

5. Kate Kelly (“Doctors are already abusing the power they have").

6. Elizabeth Poiana (“Older people are no longer valued”)

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Bait and Switch

In 1997, Oregon became the first US state to legalize assisted suicide. In 2008, Washington State enacted a similar law.

Both laws were passed by ballot measures in which voters were promised that only people with less than six months to live would be allowed to "self-administer" a lethal dose.

Once passed, however, the laws were applied to people with years to live. This is because the six months to live is determined without treatment.

Consider, for example, Jeanette Hall, who was talked out of assisted suicide in Oregon. Her doctor convinced her to be treated for cancer instead of taking a lethal dose. Today, 18 years later, she is thrilled to be alive.

As for self-administration, Oregon's law doesn't even use the term. Do a word search, it's not there.

In Washington State, the term is used, but specially defined to allow someone else to administer the lethal dose to the patient, which is euthanasia as traditionally defined.

The Oregon & Washington laws are a bait and switch.

Why Choice is an Illusion?

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

No on ABX2-15: Voices Against Assisted-Suicide!