“You don’t see people marching in the street demanding the right to be killed by a doctor,” Attorney and Award winning Author Wesley J. Smith told a packed conference room at Saturday’s East Coast Conference Against Assisted Suicide in Hartford, Conn., coordinated by the Family Institute of Connecticut and the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. “Suicide pushers are a small … [Read more...] about “Facts on the Ground” Prove the Slippery Slope is Here
Brittany Maynard Didn’t Speak for “the Millenials”
During the Brittany Maynard publicity explosion, bioethicist Arthur Caplan wrote that young people, identifying with Maynard, would come out in droves to push the legalization of assisted suicide. There is, however, a cohort of young people reacting to the Maynard videos in exactly the opposite way, by expressing their strong opposition. Meghan Schrader, a thirty-two year … [Read more...] about Brittany Maynard Didn’t Speak for “the Millenials”
The True Cost Cutting Agenda Behind the Pleasant Packaging of of Legal Assisted Suicide
Attorney Margaret Dore has reminded us of a very important side story to the widely publicized Barbara Wagner case, in which the Oregon Health Plan (Oregon Medicaid) declined coverage of life extending chemotherapy for Ms. Wagner’s lung cancer in a a letter listing, among other options it would cover, physician assisted suicide ((http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5517492). … [Read more...] about The True Cost Cutting Agenda Behind the Pleasant Packaging of of Legal Assisted Suicide
East Coast Conference Nov 22!
There will be a conference hosted by several East Coast groups Nov. 22 in Hartord CT. Some great speakers will be present, including Nancy Elliot the former New Hampshire State Representative who helped orchestrate the astounding defeat of Assisted Suicide in New Hampshire this year. Peter Wolfgang of Connecticut and John Kelly of Massachusetts who also helped lead the … [Read more...] about East Coast Conference Nov 22!
Very Very Good News in the Vermont Elections
Endorsements and donations from Patient Choices, the VT pro-assisted suicide group backed up by the nationwide group Compassion and Choices, do not seem to have paid off in the 2014 VT elections. The most spectacular defeat for a Patient Choices-endorsed legislator was that of Linda Waite-Simpson, about whom we have written several times. Waite-Simpson was instrumental in … [Read more...] about Very Very Good News in the Vermont Elections