Category Archives: Doctor-Prescribed Suicide

Stop the Effort to Legalize Doctor-Prescribed Suicide in PA

Thursday, 02 March 2023 13:20
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Together we can stop assisted suicide

Some Pennsylvania lawmakers are attempting to legalize doctor-prescribed suicide in PA.

You can find the co-sponsorship memo here. You can find the measure, HB 543, here.

Doctor-prescribed suicide is a dangerous practice in which physicians prescribe a lethal dose of drugs to end the lives of vulnerable individuals.

A number of medical professionals, disability rights activists, and others have condemned the practice because the so-called legal safeguards simply do not work.

Please join with us in raising our collective voices against this ill-conceived legislation.

Assisted Suicide Needs to be Stopped

Friday, 19 March 2021 12:36
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Source: Hartford Courant

By: Lisa Blumberg

It defies imagination that Connecticut is contemplating legalizing assisted suicide when COVID-19 deaths have exceeded 500,000 nationwide. The virus has laid bare the inequities and prejudices of our health system. Low-income people and people of color are dying at disproportionately high rates. Connecticut has the highest COVID-19 nursing home death rate in the Northeast. An appalling 91 out of every 100,000 nursing home residents in Connecticut have died. Early in the crisis, members of the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics wrote chillingly that “typical medical options may soon not be available to everyone.”

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Legalizing Assisted Suicide Risks Harm to Veterans

Thursday, 26 March 2020 13:26
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Elderly holding hands

Source: The Virginia Pilot

By Tom Steffens

When I was on active duty, one of the key tenets of our Navy SEAL Creed was, “Leave no one behind.”

I see this same principle alive across our commonwealth as civil society and our public servants work tirelessly to support our 700,000 veterans every day. Despite that extraordinary effort, we all know that the men and women who valiantly served our country are at a higher risk for suicide.

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Doctor: Assisted Suicide Should Not be Allowed

Tuesday, 24 September 2019 12:23
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Hospital

Source: Madison.com

By: Dr. Tim Jessick

MENOMONEE FALLS — A bill introduced last week to legalize assisted suicide would be disastrous for Wisconsin. It would shrink end-of-life treatment options for older adults, people with disabilities and others facing terminal diagnoses.

Assisted suicide compromises the role of a physician as a healer and runs contrary to the position of the largest medical society in the country, the American Medical Association. The physician-patient relationship is one that must operate on trust that the physician will do everything in his or her power to heal the patient, and never do the patient harm. The American Medical Association recognizes how assisted suicide undermines the primary role of the physician as healer and reaffirmed its opposition again this year.

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The Dangers of Allowing Assisted Suicide

Tuesday, 23 April 2019 12:31
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JJ Hanson & family

 

By Kristen Hanson

Source: HudsonValleyOne.com

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 mistakes, abuse and coercion.

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