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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

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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Disability Rights Activist: Where Assisted Suicide is Legal, People Will Die against Their Will Through Mistakes or Abuse

Posted in Disability Rights Groups' Opposition, Elder Abuse, Rejections of Assisted Suicide in other states on October 15, 2014 | Comments Off

This article, by Marilyn Golden, Senior Policy Analyst of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, appeared on CNN October 14, 2014. Golden writes: “At less than $300, assisted suicide is, to put it bluntly, the cheapest treatment for a terminal illness. This means that in places where assisted suicide is legal, coercion is not […]

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Another State Legislature with Good Sense: “Aid in dying bill, lacking enough votes, pulled from NJ Assembly agenda”

Posted in Rejections of Assisted Suicide in other states on June 26, 2014 | Comments Off

This is extremely good news.  Thanks to Second Thoughts Massachusetts for sharing it. http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/06/aid_in_dying_bill_lacking_enough_votes_pulled_from_nj_assembly_agenda.html#incart_river

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Physician Assisted Suicide faces continued pushback in New Hampshire and Vermont

Posted in Moratorium, Rejections of Assisted Suicide in other states on March 13, 2014 | Comments Off

http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2014/03/physician-assisted-suicide-faces-continued-pushback-in-new-hampshire-and-vermont/#.UyI8coXJFz-

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Wonderful, Wonderful News: Maine House Rejects Assisted Suicide Bill

Posted in Rejections of Assisted Suicide in other states on May 31, 2013 | Comments Off

It appears that Vermont is an outlier, not at all the first of a series of dice to topple, as the supporters of the assisted suicide/euthanasia “movement” had hoped.  The Maine House has defeated an assisted suicide bill by a wide margin. Here’s a link to Alex Schadenberg’s news piece. http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2013/05/maine-house-overwhelmingly-rejects.html

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