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. Across the country, there is growing support …
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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 Senate and House failed to agree …
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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 for, my fellow progressives have embraced …
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A George Soros-backed effort in California has stalled, the latest sign of weak backing for the deadly practice. By AARON KHERIATY May 22, 2015 In the past 20 years, more than 100 campaigns to legalize assisted suicide have been introduced in various states. All but three have failed. In 2012 the same Massachusetts voters who …
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BY JONI EARECKSON TADA Sacramento Bee, 4/24/14 As I feared when Brittany Maynard went so public with her decision to end her life through assisted suicide, there are attempts to pass death with dignity laws across the nation. In California, our Legislature is considering Senate Bill 128. I am so grateful that many disability groups …
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015 Not Dead Yet applauds Second Thoughts Connecticut, as disability advocates held a press conference Monday and now prepare to testify against an assisted suicide bill (HB 7015) at a Connecticut House Judiciary Committee hearing being held on Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Not Dead Yet’s New England regional director John Kelly is …
By Daniela Altimari March 17, 2015 Gov. Dannel P. Malloy continues to grapple with the concept of “aid-in-dying.” “I still struggle with the issue, quite honestly,” the governor told reporters at a press conference Tuesday morning. For the third year in a row, lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow certain terminally ill patients to …
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By John B. Kelly Even as the Oregon-based Death with Dignity National Center and other assisted suicide proponents continue to insist that “there have been no efforts to expand either (Oregon or Washington’s) law beyond their strict guidelines,” here comes House Bill 3337, which would stretch the meaning of terminal illness from six months to …
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March 16, 2015 PR Newswire Association LLC Legislative proposals to allow doctors to prescribe fatal prescriptions to people diagnosed with a terminal illness are not seen as a good option by Connecticut adults according to a new Knights of Columbus-Marist poll. By five points (50 percent to 45 percent), Connecticut residents believe doctors should only …
Lexington Park, MD — Del. Deb Rey [R: District 29B] says she will oppose the proposed “Death with Dignity Act” now before the Maryland General Assembly. House Bill 1021 was heard last week in Rey’s Judiciary Committee. Rey announced her opposition at her second Town Hall meeting on March 7 at the Lexington Park Library. …
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