Last November, Colorado passed Proposition 106, making it the fifth state to legislate assisted suicide. Oregon, Washington, California and Vermont already had assisted suicide laws on the books. Montana also has it not by legislation but by an activist court. Since Wyoming is sandwiched between Montana...
As a physician who deals daily with terminal patients, I can say that HB 160 is bad policy for many reasons. Here are five: First, contrary to what proponents say, legalizing assisted suicide actually limits your choices and access to healthcare. Once assisted suicide becomes a medical...
'I love you. Kill yourself' In the days before Conrad Roy III took his own life, Michelle Carter exploited his “frailties” by twisting words of affection into brutally cold directives, prosecutors said Friday. “She turned [their conversations] into: ‘I love you. Kill yourself,’ ” Bristol Assistant District...
Becomes 16th state to reject legislation in 2017 A bill that would have legalized assisted suicide in Nevada died in an Assembly committee as the 2017 legislative session expired. The Nevada Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services chose not to advance the bill on Tuesday, the...
A bill allowing doctor-assisted suicide in Delaware has cleared a House committee. Lawmakers on the Democrat-led committee voted along party lines Wednesday to send the bill to the full House, even though some Democratic committee members said they don’t support the legislation in its current form. The...
A Las Vegas doctor says that he remembers the account described in an anti-assisted-suicide advertisement of an insurer denying life-saving treatment to a patient, while pushing doctors to move forward with a prescription of lethal drugs. Dr. Sameer Tapryal was a senior resident at the University...
A Massachusetts judge ruled that two doctors may move forward with a lawsuit seeking an order that the state's murder and manslaughter laws do not apply to physicians who offer lethal medications to terminally ill patients. Superior Court Judge Mary Ames in Boston in a ruling...
Dr. Rebecca Thoman, a representative of Compassion & Choices and not a Massachusetts resident, recently responded to my column in which I urged rejection of doctor-prescribed suicide. Her column helped make my point that those who support doctor-prescribed suicide use euphemistic deception by calling doctor-prescribed...
New York’s highest court will hear arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit that seeks to effectively undo the state’s statute against physician-assisted suicide. An advocacy group, “End of Life Choice New York,” along with some terminally ill patients, and physicians, lawyers and the New York Civil Liberties...
On Tuesday, the Court of Appeals will hear Myers v. Schneiderman, a renewed attempt to legalize physician-assisted suicide in New York. The plaintiffs are three patients, two of whom have since died, several physicians and End of Life Choices New York, a non-profit agency that...