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Vermont’s New Eugenics Movement

Posted in Choice Becomes "Duty" to Die, Classism and Assisted Suicide, Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Selfishness of Proponents, Slippery Slope, Vermont on March 14, 2015 | Comments Off

Many Vermonters would be stunned to learn that some eighty years ago, our legislature passed a law enabling the sterilization of Vermonters who had been determined to be “undesirables,” people from targeted groups that included Abenakis and French Canadian immigrants. The 1931 sterilization law was designed to reduce the number of people seen as placing […]

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The Act is Suicide

Posted in Vermont on January 31, 2013 | Comments Off

On January 30, the Burlington Free Press Called on Vermonters to stop using euphemisms and call assisted suicide what it really is: suicide. Here’s a quote: “In some ways, the death with dignity legislation is an attempt to place a veneer of medical legitimacy on suicide to ease our conscience about something for which we […]

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An Factual Article and a Burlington Free Press Editorial on the Defeat of Assisted Suicide in the Vermont Senate

Posted in Editorials, Out of State/General, Vermont on May 14, 2012 | Comments Off

We just got the new issue of the Patients Rights Council newsletter, with an excellent article about the defeat of the 10th attempt to legalize assisted suicide in our state. The Patients Rights Council article contains excerpts from the Burlington Free Press’s April 13 editorial praising the defeat of assisted suicide on the grounds that […]

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Another Vermont Newspaper, the Orleans County Record, Comes Out against Assisted Suicide

Posted in Editorials, Vermont on January 8, 2012 | Comments Off

The editorial in italics below appeared in the Orleans County Record on January 7, 2012.  Here’s the link:http://orleanscountyrecord.com/main.asp?SectionID=8&SubSectionID=33&ArticleID=18291&TM=79119.19. Keep Door Closed With the regularity of a metronome, Sen. Ginny Lyons, D-Chittenden opens each new legislative session riding her hobby horse, a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide. We oppose the notion on practical grounds. We see […]

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Montpelier’s Newspaper, The Bridge, Opposes Legalizing Assisted Suicide

Posted in Editorials, Vermont on December 18, 2011 | Comments Off

In its December 15 edition, The Bridge published an editorial opposing taking up assisted suicide in the 2012 legislative session. The editorial calls instead for legislative priority to be given to “measures that will support people at the end of their lives”. It laments the sad fact that many dying Vermonters lack “adequate food, housing, […]

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