tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68437053008641478472024-03-18T09:08:52.255-07:00"Choice" Is An IllusionA non-profit corporation opposed to assisted suicide, euthanasia and other forms of imposed death, worldwideUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger570125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-57188319264869986592024-03-16T11:29:00.000-07:002024-03-16T11:30:06.980-07:00 Jurisdictions That Legalize Euthanasia or Assisted Suicide Will Regret it. Just Look at Canada.By Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention CoalitionI am just returning from a speaking tour which included meetings with elected representatives in Scotland and the Isle of Man. Both jurisdictions are debating the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide. While in Scotland, a news story was published concerning Keir Starmer, the leader of the UK Labour party, who Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-47496384469244951962024-03-13T23:34:00.000-07:002024-03-13T23:34:42.761-07:00Off Topic: I Am a 21st Century DogAuthor UnknownI'm a Malinois. Overskilled among dogs, I excel in all disciplines and I'm always ready to work: I NEED to work. But nowadays I get asked to chill on the couch all day everyday.I am an Akita Inu. My ancestors were selected for dog fighting. Today I get asked to be tolerant and I get scolded for my reactivity when another approaches me.I am a Beagle. When I Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-71218697890111688812024-03-13T00:14:00.000-07:002024-03-14T00:26:25.843-07:00West Virginia to Vote on Landmark Constitutional Amendment Outlawing Medically Assisted Suicide in November 2024 ElectionWV News Report West Virginia citizens will soon have a say on a constitutional change. This change aims to ban "medically assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing." This is the first time a US state has considered a constitutional ban on this medical practice. It is often called assisted suicide or aid-in-dying. Amendment 1 is related to this ban. Citizens will vote on it on Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-80820298788412233932024-03-11T23:41:00.000-07:002024-03-18T09:08:19.558-07:00My Personal Experience With Assisted SuicideBy Margaret DoreIn another life, I talked three young men down from suicide.What I think happened is that a final exit network type person had given them my phone number by mistake. This was before the age of caller ID.I was contacted by each of the three young men over a period of time, each one wanting assistance to kill himself. I called a suicide prevention person to ask what I should doAdminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-14835671343201193822024-03-09T13:37:00.000-08:002024-03-09T13:37:35.198-08:00Access Living’s Amber Smock Quoted Extensively In Chicago TribuneBy Diane Coleman [pictured here]Three days ago, Amber Smock, Vice President of Advocacy at Access Living, was quoted extensively in a Chicago Tribune article about Illinois’ assisted suicide bill. Today, the editorial board of the Tribune took a position opposed to the bill.The March 5th article, “Should Illinois become a ‘right-to-die’ state? Lawmakers consider end-of-life option for terminally Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-57378970826570936272024-03-08T14:26:00.000-08:002024-03-08T14:26:10.650-08:00West Virginia House Passes Resolution, 88 to 9, Providing Protection from Medically-Assisted Suicide & EuthanasiaBy Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.Roger Hanshaw [photo at right] who is the Speaker of the House in West Virginia has sponsored House Joint Resolution (HJR 28) to add protection from assisted suicide in the state Bill of Rights. HRJ 28 states the following:Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia amending Article III thereof by Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-8753507228426500522024-03-06T14:54:00.000-08:002024-03-06T14:54:24.711-08:00Indiana Resolution Opposing Assisted Suicide Passes in CommitteeAlex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention CoalitionIndiana Resolution 17 titled: A Concurrent Resolution opposing and condemning assisted suicide passed on Wednesday February 29 [2024] passed on the Indiana Senate Committee on Health and Provider Services by a vote of 9 to 2. The following is the wording of the resolution:Whereas, The State of Indiana has an Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-5102376484201900322024-03-05T14:31:00.000-08:002024-03-05T22:53:31.872-08:00Virginia Assisted Suicide Bill Will Carry Over to 2025, Other Bills DeadMore good news from the east coast! Virginia bill SB 280, which had passed in the Senate, failed to move forward in the House – despite last ditch efforts – and will carry over to 2025. Many thanks to the Virginia coalition which did outstanding work to prevent passage.In the meantime, the following bills are now declared dead for 2024 and will NOT carry over to the new year. Arizona: SB Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-74830230697838050892024-03-04T09:21:00.000-08:002024-03-04T14:04:04.123-08:0024 Years Ago, Jeanette Hall Had Terminal Cancer And Wanted Assisted SuicideBy Alex Schadenberg , material contributed by Margaret DoreI was speaking this weekend in Oregon and Dr Kenneth Stevens gave us an incredible gift by bring Jeanette Hall to the event.(Picture: Alex Schadenberg, Jeanette Hall, Kenneth Stevens, Wesley Smith)Oregon's assisted suicide law came into effect in 1998. In 2000, Jeanette Hall had cancer and she was give six to 12 months to live. Jeanette Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-31622717615766504742024-03-01T15:15:00.000-08:002024-03-01T15:30:20.711-08:00Maryland: Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia Bill Dead for the YearTo view full article click here.by Sapna Bansil, Capital News Service Lawmakers have tabled a fiercely debated bill that would have granted terminally ill Maryland residents the right to end their lives, a setback to supporters who hoped it would finally pass this year.Senate President Bill Ferguson, D-Baltimore City, said in a press conference Friday that the measure had not won Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-7380603672669426422024-02-26T19:59:00.000-08:002024-02-26T20:09:37.982-08:00Medical Aid-in-Dying Bill Short on Votes, Unlikely to Pass Senate Committee By Danielle J. Brown, February 26, 2024A controversial bill for medical aid-in-dying [assisted suicide/euthanasia], which would allow qualifying terminally-ill patients to prompt their own death with the help of a physician, will likely be stalled for a least another year, as some senators “continue to wrestle” with the issue, Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee Chair Will SmithAdminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-83125843784358192562024-02-25T15:05:00.000-08:002024-02-25T15:15:08.863-08:00Canadian Doctors Admit Covid ‘Booster’ Shot Paralyzed Woman, Offer to Euthanize Her to ‘Make Up for It’Canadian doctors have admitted that a Covid “booster” shot from Moderna is responsible for a young Ontario woman now being paralyzed for the rest of her life.37-year-old mother Kayla Pollock is now paralyzed from the neck down after receiving the mRNA injection and says her life has become a “living hell.”According to a report from The Liberty Daily, however, doctors have offered to “make up for Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-3822464556119642052024-02-23T18:44:00.000-08:002024-02-24T11:42:47.556-08:00Washington Post Exposes the Expansion of Canada's Euthanasia Law By Lisa BlumbergThe broadening of eligibility under the Canada’s euthanasia law to include people who are deemed to suffer from “untreatable mental illnesses” has been delayed once again. The expansion had been scheduled to take effect in March. According to the New York Times, the postponement occurred because a parliamentary committee concluded that there are not enough doctors, Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-71186971430096319492024-02-23T17:45:00.000-08:002024-02-23T17:45:06.741-08:00Maryland Psychiatrists Oppose Medical-aid-in-dying Bill for Good Reason https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/02/23/psychiatrists-oppose-suicide-billPhoto from last year: O. J. Brigance, a former Ravens football player who has the neurodegenerative disease ALS, waits to testify against a bill to legalize physician-assisted death last year.This year, the Legislative Action Committee of the Maryland Psychiatric Society, an organization that represents physician Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-18904035112607880172024-02-22T17:46:00.000-08:002024-02-22T17:46:59.593-08:00Delaware Talking PointsBy Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA“Aid in Dying” has been a euphemism for physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia since at least 1992.Per the American Medical Association, "physician-assisted suicide" occurs when a doctor facilitates a patient’s death by providing the means or information to enable a patient to perform the life-ending act. "Euthanasia" is the administration of a lethal agent by Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-68796146434408652882024-02-17T14:19:00.000-08:002024-02-17T15:53:25.877-08:00Canadian Bill C-62 Regarding Mental IllnessFederal Bill C-62 seeks to amend Canada's Criminal Code, to provide that persons are not eligible, until March 17, 2027, to receive medical assistance in dying “if their sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness” continues its legislative journey.*The adoption of a motion this week allowed this Bill to be expedited. Note that there was a failed attempt by the Bloc Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-70058532578857297412024-02-15T22:40:00.000-08:002024-02-15T22:42:35.043-08:00West Virginia Proposes Constitutional Protection From Medically-Assisted Suicide and EuthanasiaHouse Joint Resolution 28Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia amending Article III thereof by adding thereto a new section, designated section twenty-three, relating to the protection from medically-assisted suicide or euthanasia in West Virginia; numbering and designating such proposed amendment; and providing a summarized statement of the purpose of such Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-3824737925023651902024-02-15T17:00:00.000-08:002024-02-15T22:46:40.905-08:00Nine States Have Strengthened Their Laws Against Assisted Suicide
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey
By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA
In the last thirteen years, at least nine states have strengthened their laws against assisted suicide and/or euthanasia. They are:
1. Alabama: In 2017, Alabama enacted the Assisted Suicide Ban Act;
2. Arizona: In 2014, Arizona strengthened its law against assisted suicide.
3. GeorgiaAdminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-47580646220432622222024-02-14T00:02:00.000-08:002024-02-14T00:02:06.588-08:00Indiana House Resolution Opposing Assisted Suicide; Senate ConcurringTo view the entire document, click here.Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, the Senate concurring: SECTION 1. That the Indiana General Assembly strongly opposes and condemns assisted medical suicide because the Indiana General Assembly has an unqualified interest in the preservation of human life. SECTION 2. That the Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-56602256927081850142024-02-13T21:01:00.000-08:002024-02-15T23:33:51.694-08:00Declaration of Jeanette Hall 23 Years After She Was Talked Out of Assisted Suicide in OregonJeanette with her son Scott, shortlyafter she changed her mindI, JEANETTE HALL, declare as follows:1. I live in Oregon where assisted suicide is legal. Our law was enacted in 1997 via a ballot measure that I voted for.2. In 2000, I was diagnosed with cancer and told that I had 6 months to a year to live. I knew that our law had passed, but I didn’t know exactly how to Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-20842661604997135952024-02-12T23:10:00.000-08:002024-02-15T23:30:18.252-08:00Proposed Bill Renders Delaware Residents Sitting Ducks to Their Heirs and Other PredatorsAttorney Margaret Dore, President of Choice is an Illusion, which has fought against assisted suicide and euthanasia legalization throughout the United States, and internationally, has issued the following statement regarding House Bill 140, still pending in the Delaware General Assembly. The proposed bill seeks to legalize assisted suicide, physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, on both a Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-65000092402807250712024-02-11T21:55:00.000-08:002024-02-15T23:24:15.228-08:00Anita Cameron’s Powerful Statement At Maryland Press ConferenceBy Diane ColemanOn February 8, the Maryland Senate's Judicial Proceedings Committee held a public hearing on a proposed assisted suicide bill (SB0443). That morning prior to the hearing, the Patients Rights Action Fund organized a press conference of opponents. Anita Cameron represented Not Dead Yet and made the following compelling arguments against the bill:I'm Anita Cameron, Director of Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-67096815296556862282024-01-25T16:51:00.000-08:002024-01-25T16:51:32.295-08:00John Kelly's Testimony Opposing Assisted Suicide in Minnesota
There is no way to contain eligibility to a narrow set of people. Especially when thousands of disabled Americans now live with conditions that in some states are seen as “worse than death.” Anorexia nervosa and diabetes can now qualify as terminal conditions. Once death is accepted as a positive outcome of medical care, it inevitably gets offered to more and more people.The problem for us Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-59748363627036130102024-01-20T12:59:00.000-08:002024-01-20T12:59:51.362-08:00Alzheimer's Association Terminates Relationship with Compassion & Choices, fna the Hemlock SocietyInteresting news from last year.In an effort to provide information and resources about Alzheimer’s disease, the Alzheimer’s Association entered into an agreement to provide education and awareness information to Compassion & Choices, but failed to do appropriate due diligence. Their values are inconsistent with those of the Association. We deeply regret our mistake, have begun the Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6843705300864147847.post-91185179146345565862024-01-17T19:32:00.000-08:002024-01-17T19:32:43.078-08:00This Is Where the Right to Die Leads UsBy Alex Schadenberg*Spiked published an in-depth article by Lauren Smith on January 15, 2024 titled: "Canada has revealed the horror of assisted dying." Smith tells the stories of the many people who have felt forced into considering death by euthanasia.Smith sets the stage for her article by calling Canada's euthanasia law a gruesome, state-sanctioned industry. Smith states:There is Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.com