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Bad But Not Hopeless News From Canada: Good News from Colorado

Posted in Canada, Canada Supreme Court, Colorado, Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide Two Sides of the Same Coin, Expansion of Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia, Legal Opinions, Legislative Efforts in Other States, Rejections of Assisted Suicide in other states, Uncategorized on February 7, 2015 | Comments Off on Bad But Not Hopeless News From Canada: Good News from Colorado

In a shocking unanimous decision yesterday, Canada’s  Supreme Court overturned the long-standing countrywide ban on doctor assisted death.  The ruling applies to the whole country. Because the ruling did not, as far as we can glean from newspaper reports, require that the poison by which a person’s life would be ended must be self administered, […]

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Attorney’s Analysis of the Bill the Senate Will Vote on Tomorrow

Posted in Legal Opinions on April 29, 2013 | Comments Off on Attorney’s Analysis of the Bill the Senate Will Vote on Tomorrow

Margaret Dore, an elder law attorney from  Washington State, one of only two states in the nation where assisted suicide is legal, has written an excellent analysis of the version of S.77  the Judiciary Committee has sent to the House of Representatives for a floor debate and vote tomorrow.  To read it go to http://choiceisanillusion.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/s-77-floor-memo-04-29-13.pdf.  […]

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Vermont Lawyer Norman Smith’s Testimony: I Fear for at Least One Client’s Life if Assisted Suicide is Legalized in VT

Posted in Legal Opinions, Vermont Legislature on April 20, 2013 | Comments Off on Vermont Lawyer Norman Smith’s Testimony: I Fear for at Least One Client’s Life if Assisted Suicide is Legalized in VT

Testimony of Norman C Smith, Esq. Before the Vermont  House Human Services Committee April 12, 2013   Chairwoman Pugh, members of the Committee, thank you for allowing me to testify. My name is Norman Smith.  I was born and raised in St. Johnsbury, graduating from St. Johnsbury Academy in 1973. After graduating from MIT and […]

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Canada’s Federal Government Files Counter-Arguments in British Columbia Court Case Finding the Federal Law Benning Assistance in S

Posted in Canada, Legal Opinions on October 25, 2012 | Comments Off on Canada’s Federal Government Files Counter-Arguments in British Columbia Court Case Finding the Federal Law Benning Assistance in S

According to an article in the British Columbia newspaper The Province, the federal government government of Canada  has today filed court arguments challenging a British Columbia court decision finding a right to assistance in suicide and to euthanasia if a person is unable to commit suicide on his or her own. According to the article, […]

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Wonderful News: The Government of Canada Appeals the British Columbia Supreme Court Ruling Legalizing Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Posted in Canada, Legal Opinions on July 13, 2012 | Comments Off on Wonderful News: The Government of Canada Appeals the British Columbia Supreme Court Ruling Legalizing Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

The government of Canada is appealing last spring’s ruling by the British Columbia Supreme Court that the Canadian law banning assisted suicide is unconstitutional. It is also appealing the one time exemption given to the woman who brought the case,  a ruling that would have allowed her to be euthanized before the bill makes its […]

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Massachusetts Lawyer with “Front Line Experience” Tells Why He Opposes Legalizing Assisted Suicide

Posted in Legal Opinions, Other States on May 19, 2012 | Comments Off on Massachusetts Lawyer with “Front Line Experience” Tells Why He Opposes Legalizing Assisted Suicide

Back in March, a physician who had been an advocate for assisted suicide in Oregon took his own life. An Associated Press story on the doctor’s suicide elicited the following letter to the editor of the Boston Globe . The author is a Massachusetts lawyer whose opposition to legal assisted suicide comes from his experience […]

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Assisted Suicide Legislation is Ripe for Abuse: A Vermont Attorney’s Letter to the Bennington Banner

Posted in Legal Opinions, Letters to the Editors of Newspapers, Vermont on January 10, 2012 | Comments Off on Assisted Suicide Legislation is Ripe for Abuse: A Vermont Attorney’s Letter to the Bennington Banner

I write in response to the local physician who supports assisted suicide legislation (H.274 and S.103) in Vermont. The physician’s conclusions are highly disputable. He refers to the website of the special interest group that is spending millions to pass assisted suicide in Vermont, and a Hollywood puff piece promoting assisted suicide. Let’s not form […]

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