A bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide (PAS) was introduced in the 2019 Nevada Legislature. As an internal medicine physician in Nevada, I see many problems with this law and urge lawmakers to reject it. This bill would make patients eligible for PAS if they have been diagnosed...
We need only look back to the 2016 election to remember that polling can often be misrepresented and requires careful scrutiny. Even when interested parties refer to their own polling as “truth,” (“5 truths about New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act,” March 27, 2019)...
2 — Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Suicide Among Adults Aged 35-64 Years — United States, 1999-2010. ...
Assemblyman Kevin Cahill did well when he voted against previous bills to legalize assisted suicide in New York. Assisted suicide bills are inherently discriminatory and they make for dangerous public policy that puts a great number of vulnerable people at risk of deadly harm through...
"The purpose of the criminal law isn't to give options and choices to some; it's to give protection to all of us and, particularly, the most vulnerable among us." -Robert Preston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLb0n25cq7o A deadly double standard features the story of Claire Freeman, who has been a tetraplegic...
At the state capital the debate over aid-in-dying takes center stage. Governor Andrew Cuomo is backing legislation that would allow the terminally ill to end their own lives -- setting up a potentially controversial close to the legislative session...
The World Medical Association should uphold its ethics code and not succumb to politics Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia (PAS-E) has been a source of discussion for millennia, as evidenced by its explicit mention in the Hippocratic Oath from the fifth to third century B.C., where Hippocrates...
https://www.facebook.com/foxandfriends/videos/975411032849062/?__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARAXzEWPL-uWxeNeeha26HWE6DBgtceiRY_wCWumQ7slKuYeY24STDJNUtKzPpsDu7pgNWVfpblWLNIm Kristen Hanson, Community Relations Advocate with the Patients Rights Action Fund, joins Tom Shakely, Chief Engagement Officer with Americans United for Life, and Dennis Vacco, former NY Attorney General, to discuss why assisted suicide is very dangerous public policy. To view the full interview, click the...
https://youtu.be/hTv6quHcfxo This documentary features the story of Vicki Walsh, overcoming all odds diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in 2011 and given months to live, who speaks out against the End of Life Choice Bill in 'Terminal but not dead yet'. Also featuring Hospice palliative care expert...
Lawmakers in Oregon introduced four bills this year to expand assisted suicide, some with the goal of explicitly expanding the definition of “terminal disease,” making an ever increasing number of Oregon residents eligible for assisted suicide. "Twenty-five years after Oregon voters passed the Death with Dignity...