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Some Legislators Taking a “Hear-no-evil” Stance on Act 39

Posted in Brittany Maynard, Classism and Assisted Suicide, Compassion and Choices, Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide Contagion, Selling of Suicide, Suicide Contagion on April 18, 2015 | Comments Off

     Boldly displayed on a dry-erase board in Room 46 at the Vermont Statehouse, the meeting room for the House Human Services Committee, is a short list of principles the Committee has established to guide them as they consider legislation that affects Vermonters. The very first goal listed is: “Ensuring that vulnerable (Vermonters) are safe […]

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Great Op-Ed in The Valley Reporter (VT): The Systemic Injustice of Assisted Suicide

Posted in Classism and Assisted Suicide, Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide Contagion on April 16, 2015 | Comments Off

This is a great piece published in today’s edition of Valley Reporter, written by a brilliant young woman of Brittany Maynard’s generation, a graduate student in disability studies at the University of New Hampshire and a person with a disability.  Here is her picture. True Dignity believes the article is important for its analysis of […]

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Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Are Contagious

Posted in Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide Contagion, Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide Two Sides of the Same Coin on February 15, 2015 | Comments Off

Linked at the end of this post is a very balanced article about euthanasia and assisted suicide: how they are spreading in Europe, how Canada, with last week’s court decision, is poised to follow, and how the US is trending in the same direction. It clearly describes the dangers , at least some of them.  […]

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