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Boston Globe and Hartford Courant Report That the CT Assisted Suicide Bill Will Not Receive a Vote in Committee

Posted in Connecticut, Defeats in other states on March 25, 2014 | Comments Off

Here are the links to the articles about the victory in CT.  How we wish they were about a victory in VT!  Still, we are overjoyed that the passage of assisted suicide in Vermont did not topple the other dominoes, not at all.  If passage here was a victory for “the movement”, Maine, New Hampshire, […]

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Good News, But Be Vigilant

Posted in Connecticut, Defeats in other states on March 25, 2014 | Comments Off

Members of the Public Health Committee in the CT legislature are saying there probably won’t be a vote on the assisted suicide bill this year.  If there is no vote, the bill would be dead for this session of the legislature.  That is exceedingly good news, and, if true, it leaves Vermont isolated among the […]

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How Could VT Lawmakers, Knowing the State’s Terrible Abuse Response Record, Consider Enacting Assisted Suicide, the Perfect Cover for Abusers?

Posted in Commentary, Elder Abuse, True Dignity, Vermont Legislature on April 14, 2013 | Comments Off

The Vermont House recently passed H. 105, an act requiring the Commissioner of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living, part of the VT Department of Human Services, to provide quarterly information on the number of adult abuse reports received by the department, the number actually investigated, the number declared unsubstianted after an investigation, and the reasons […]

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Comments Needed on Bennington Banner Article

Posted in True Dignity, Vermont Legislature on February 28, 2013 | Comments Off

The article linked and underlined below is based on interviews with one of our board members and with a board member of Vermont’s  pro-assisted suicide group.  Please post your comments opposing assisted suicide as soon as possible, both on the Bennington Banner site and on our Facebook page.  Also please share this article and ask your […]

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A Good Day in Vermont for Opponents of Assisted Suicide

Posted in Commentary, True Dignity, Vermont Legislature on February 14, 2013 | Comments Off

True Dignity is quite happy with the version of S. 77 that passed the Senate this afternoon. News reports to the contrary, the bill is not in any way an assisted suicide bill.  It replaces the original 22 page bill with a very short one.  It specifically does not exempt a doctor who intentionally helps […]

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Under S. 77 a Doctor Can Assist Your Beloved Relative or Friend to Commit Suicide without Informing You

Posted in Commentary, Relatives Won't Know, True Dignity on February 10, 2013 | Comments Off

Did you know that if f S. 77 becomes law in Vermont, anyone of us could find out only afterwards that a beloved relative or friend had committed suicide with assistance from a doctor?   S. 77 instructs doctors to recommend that a patient requesting assisted suicide tell family and friends, but it does not require […]

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The Article Margaret Battin Admitted in Yesterday’s Testimony Had Challenged Her Study’s Findings That No Groups in Oregon Are Particularly Vulnerable to Being Coerced into Assisted Suicide

Posted in Commentary, Countering the PAS lobby, True Dignity on February 2, 2013 | Comments Off

Yesterday’s testimony before the Health and Welfare and Judiciary Committees ended with Margaret Battin, a philosopher from the University of Utah who concluded in a 2007 study that “vulnerable groups” had not been harmed by the Oregon law or by the legality of assisted suicide and euthanasia in the Netherlands.  The assisted suicide lobby has […]

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