September 11, 2015 After an impassioned four-and-a-half hour debate in the Commons, members voted by three to one against giving second reading to a the Assisted Dying Bill, which would allow terminally ill patients to be supplied with a lethal dose of drugs. MPs on both sides...
September 3, 2015 Many advocates of a California law allowing doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill individuals claim that Oregon's law offers a suitable model. But there are serious problems with the legislation in Oregon and many documented cases of abuse. I have evaluated and treated thousands of...
August 14, 205 A San Francisco Superior Court judge on Friday upheld the enforcement of California laws dating back 141 years barring physician-assisted suicide after hearing arguments in a lawsuit filed by several terminally ill patients. Several plaintiffs including Christy O'Donnell and her Bay Area doctor, Robert...
Decision a blow to right-to-die movement in one of few states permitting euthanasia By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Tuesday, August 11, 2015 The New Mexico Court of Appeals handed a defeat to the right-to-die movement Tuesday by striking down a lower-court ruling establishing physician-assisted...
CA law that prohibits a doctor from assisted suicide is constitutional, judge says A Superior Court judge’s ruling Friday effectively halts a lawsuit seeking protections for California doctors who want to help terminally ill patients end their lives. The lawsuit, filed in May on behalf of a...
By Alexei Koseff The Sacramento Bee With votes lining up against the measure, California’s controversial assisted death bill was pulled from the Assembly Health Committee schedule Tuesday for the second time in two weeks and appears done for the year. Senate Bill 128, which would allow doctors to...
by Anna Gorman, Kaiser Health News June 28, 2015 When he was 19, Anthony Orefice hit a telephone pole on his motorcycle going 100 miles per hour. Doctors told his family he wouldn't survive. He did, but the accident left him paralyzed from the chest down, unable...
Stephanie Packer, a mom fighting a terminal lung disease, explains why she opposes California's Senate Bill 128 June 24, 2015 7:30PM ET by Stephanie Packer - Posted by Al Jazeera America In the past year, lawmakers in two dozen states have put controversial end-of-life bills up for debate....
Despite passage by the House, Senate support falls one vote short. June 17, 2015 The Associated Press AUGUSTA – Maine lawmakers have defeated a bill that would have allowed doctors to provide lethal doses of medication to terminally ill patients. Republican Sen. Roger Katz’s bill died Tuesday because the...
By Dr. Ira Byock Politico Magazine June 7, 2015 As a life-long progressive who is rapidly approaching Medicare age, I am dismayed by the apparent resignation of the political left to the sorry state of dying in America. Just when moral outrage and radical social change are called...