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Former Aide to NY Democrat Governors, Suffering from Brain Cancer, To Lead Fight Against Assisted Suicide in NY
According to the New York Daily News, the Patients Rights Action Fund, a national group that has long opposed the legalization of assisted suicide, has a new president. He is 34 year old ex-marine JJ Hanson, who worked for NY Democrat governors Eliot Spitzer and David Patterson as Director of Regional Affairs for the mid-Hudson Valley … [Read more...] about Former Aide to NY Democrat Governors, Suffering from Brain Cancer, To Lead Fight Against Assisted Suicide in NY
Devastatingly Bad News, But Good News Too, on the Same Day
On Friday, September 11, the California Senate passed an assisted suicide bill, Abx2-15. The Senate had passed another assisted suicide bill; SB-128, in June, but it stalled in the Assembly Health Committee, because several Democrats expressed concerns about how the practice of assisted suicide might exacerbate class, race and disability-related inequalities in the healthcare … [Read more...] about Devastatingly Bad News, But Good News Too, on the Same Day
Common Sense Prevails (Everywhere But Vermont)
There has been a lot of good news this year (everywhere but Vermont, it seems) on the assisted suicide front. There has been widespread rejection of attempts to legalize doctor-prescribed death in multiple State legislatures, with California this week providing the most recent defeat. Evidently the “momentum” claimed by Compassion and Choices (aka The Hemlock Society) after … [Read more...] about Common Sense Prevails (Everywhere But Vermont)
Assisted Suicide may be dead in California
It appears from news reports and press releases that the Assisted Suicide bill will not be presented to committee or to the floor. In a statement, the authors of Senate Bill 128, which would allow doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill patients, said they would not present it before the Assembly Health Committee on Tuesday. It was the second time in two weeks that … [Read more...] about Assisted Suicide may be dead in California