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Showing posts with label euthanasia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label euthanasia. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
South Dakota: Measure Dead
An initiated measure, seeking to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia in South Dakota, is dead. From the Associated Press:
"Supporters said Monday that they didn't collect enough signatures for the proposed ballot questions."
Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to get this result.
Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA, President
Monday, October 30, 2017
An Open Letter to the Parliament of Victoria: Say "No" to Assisted Suicide & Euthanasia
I am a lawyer in Washington State USA where assisted suicide is legal. Last year, I presented as an expert on assisted suicide to a Victoria Parliamentary Committee in Oregon USA. I am writing to urge you to vote "No" on the proposed euthanasia bill, which allows non-voluntary deaths for non-dying people.
Specific problems:
1. Patient protections are unenforceable due to the bill's "accordance" language;
2. Assisting persons can have an agenda, for example, to obtain an inheritance, or in the case of a doctor, to obtain cover for medical error.
3. The bill allows the death to occur in private without witnesses. If the patient objected, or even struggled, who would know?
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Margaret Dore Analysis Opposing Victoria Euthanasia Bill
Council Chamber |
I. INTRODUCTION
I am an attorney in Washington State USA where assisted suicide is legal.[1] I am also president of Choice is an Illusion, a nonprofit corporation opposed to assisted suicide and euthanasia. Last year, I met with a parliamentary delegation from the Legal and Social Issues Committee, Parliament of Victoria, to discuss Oregon’s law and related issues.
Washington’s law is based on Oregon’s law. Both laws are similar to the proposed bill, titled the “Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill.” The bill, however, is not limited to voluntary deaths or to people near death. I urge you to reject this measure.
Thursday, September 21, 2017
New Zealand: Māori Party Candidate Urging No Vote on Labour Due to Assisted Suicide Support
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/election/2017/09/m-ori-party-do-not-vote-for-labour-over-euthanasia.html
A Māori Party candidate is urging people not to vote for Labour because of the party's stance on assisted suicide.
In a statement released by the party, Tuilagi Saipele Esera, Māori Party Candidate for Manukau East, said Labour's intention to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide was against Christian and Pacific cultural values. . . .
The Death with Dignity Bill was put to Parliament in 1995 and 2003 but failed to pass. In 2012, the End of Life Choice Bill was also unsuccessful.
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
New Zealand: Major inquiry on voluntary euthanasia does not recommend law change
Simon O' Connor |
To read the entire article, click here:
Committee chairman Simon O'Connor said the report did not make any formal recommendations to the Government about whether euthanasia should be legalised. It instead provided a summary of the arguments for and against assisted dying.
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Hawaii: Thank You Representative Oshiro!
Representative Marcus Oshiro (in green) |
Representative Oshiro took the lead to make stopping the bill one of his main goals for the legislative session. From my viewpoint, he was a major reason we won in what was also a great team effort. Choice is an Illusion got him a plaque in appreciation.
Monday, June 12, 2017
Delaware Assisted Suicide Euthanasia Bill: Proposed Oversight is a Sham
State House, Dover DE |
I. INTRODUCTION
HB 160 legalizes 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 Delaware enacts HB 160 and follows Oregon practice, there will be a similar lack of transparency. The safety and welfare of individuals will be unverifiable from state sources.
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Nevada: Reject SB 261 (First Reprint)
To view a pdf version, click these links for the index, memo and appendix.
The issues addressed include why proposed patient protections ("safeguards") are unenforceable. See Section IX below.
Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA
I. INTRODUCTION
I am an attorney in Washington State where assisted suicide is legal. Our law is based on a similar law in Oregon.[1] Both laws are similar to SB 261, which seeks to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia in Nevada.[2]
SB 261 is stacked against the individual and recipe for elder abuse. If enacted, the bill will encourage people with years or decades to live to throw away their lives. I urge you to reject this measure.
Sunday, May 7, 2017
South Dakota Initiated Measure Stacked Against the Patient and a Recipe for Elder Abuse
By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA
To view a pdf version of this document, click the following links: index, memo and appendix. To view a one page bullet point handout, click here.
I. INTRODUCTION
I am an attorney in Washington State where assisted suicide is legal. [1] Our law is based on a similar law in Oregon. Both laws are similar to the initiated measure, which seeks to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia in South Dakota.[2]
The initiated measure is sold as a promotion of patient choice and control. The measure is instead stacked against the patient and a recipe for elder abuse.
If enacted, the measure will apply to people with years or decades to live. People with years or decades to live will be encouraged to throw away their lives. I urge you to reject this measure.
To view a pdf version of this document, click the following links: index, memo and appendix. To view a one page bullet point handout, click here.
I. INTRODUCTION
I am an attorney in Washington State where assisted suicide is legal. [1] Our law is based on a similar law in Oregon. Both laws are similar to the initiated measure, which seeks to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia in South Dakota.[2]
The initiated measure is sold as a promotion of patient choice and control. The measure is instead stacked against the patient and a recipe for elder abuse.
If enacted, the measure will apply to people with years or decades to live. People with years or decades to live will be encouraged to throw away their lives. I urge you to reject this measure.
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Dore Memoradum and Legal Analysis Opposing Nevada Bill
By Margaret Dore. To view a pdf version, click here, here and here.
I. INTRODUCTION
I am an attorney in Washington State where assisted suicide is legal.[1] Our law is based on a similar law in Oregon. Both laws are similar to the proposed bill, SB 261.[2]
The proposed bill seeks to legalize physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia as those terms are traditionally defined. The bill sells these practices as a promotion of self-determination. The bill is instead stacked against the patient and a recipe for elder abuse.
The bill applies to persons with years or decades to live. Passage will encourage people with years or decades to live to throw away their lives. I urge you to vote “No” on SB 261.
I. INTRODUCTION
Jeanette Hall |
The proposed bill seeks to legalize physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia as those terms are traditionally defined. The bill sells these practices as a promotion of self-determination. The bill is instead stacked against the patient and a recipe for elder abuse.
The bill applies to persons with years or decades to live. Passage will encourage people with years or decades to live to throw away their lives. I urge you to vote “No” on SB 261.
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, November 20, 2016
Quick Facts: District of Columbia B21-38
By Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA
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,
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:
"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.
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
NEW DATE! Early Warning: Enjoy an Interesting Evening In Missoula Montana
Rep. Brad Tschida |
Rolling Back the Suicide Epidemic:
Why are Physician-Assisted Suicide
Why are Physician-Assisted Suicide
and Euthanasia Bad News for Montana?
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.
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
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Press Release: Bill Will Allow "the Perfect Crime," Encourage People "to Throw Away Their Lives"
For print version, click here.
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
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.
Sunday, June 26, 2016
Ethan Gutmann: An Update to "Bloody Harvest" & "The Slaughter"
http://www.choiceillusioncanada.org/2016/06/ethan-gutmann-update-to-bloody-harvest_25.html
Ethan Gutmann, author of "The Slaughter," has introduced a new report and video supporting that 1.5 million people have been killed by the Chinese regime through harvesting organs, i.e., from prisoners of conscience. To view the video, click here. To view the report, click here.
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Czeck Cabinet rejects deputies' bill allowing euthanasia
http://www.praguemonitor.com/2016/06/23/cabinet-rejects-deputies-bill-allowing-euthanasia
Deputy PM Pavel Belobradek (KDU-CSL) and Industry and Trade Minister Jan Mladek (CSSD) have reported on the government's negative stand on Twitter.
"The bill, if passed, could result in the killing of people," Mladek wrote.
Prague, June 22 (CTK) - The Czech centre-left cabinet rejected
yesterday a deputies' bill enabling to
perform euthanasia in strictly defined cases, two ministers have written on Twitter. . .
perform euthanasia in strictly defined cases, two ministers have written on Twitter. . .
The final decision on it is up to parliament.
Deputy PM Pavel Belobradek (KDU-CSL) and Industry and Trade Minister Jan Mladek (CSSD) have reported on the government's negative stand on Twitter.
"The bill, if passed, could result in the killing of people," Mladek wrote.
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