We are now winning the CBC poll but losing a second poll mentioned in Alex Schadenberg's alert. This can be found at www.ctvnews.ca and asks the question, "Should Canada reconsider the criminal code prohibition on assisted suicide?" Please choose the option, "No, the law protects the vulnerable." … [Read more...] about Second Alert: There are Two Polls. Please vote NO in both!
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Alert! Please vote “No” on Canadian poll: “Should people have the legal right to assisted suicide?”
We just got the email in italics below from Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. Please vote in this Canadian poll on whether assisted suicide should be legal. Remember that legislators here in the US look at polls everywhere, and polls change minds. Right now we are losing, so please vote NO quickly and forward this to likeminded friends. * CBC news has … [Read more...] about Alert! Please vote “No” on Canadian poll: “Should people have the legal right to assisted suicide?”
Legalizing Assisted Suicide is Wrong: a Good Letter from the Missoula Montana Missoulian
I returned to my native Idaho in December 2009. Previously we lived in Spokane, where in 2008 I served as chairperson of the Coalition Against Assisted Suicide. This letter responds to Sen. Anders Blewett's letter, "Physician aid in dying: Bill's rejection a step forward" (June 10). "Aid in dying" is a euphemism for assisted suicide. No matter how one rationalizes, it is the … [Read more...] about Legalizing Assisted Suicide is Wrong: a Good Letter from the Missoula Montana Missoulian
We Don’t Believe It! Did the Vermont Commissioner of Health Care Administration Really Say Legalizing Assisted Suicide Would Help Cut Costs under Vermont’s Single Payer Health Plan?
Can Stephen Kimbell, Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration, have really told the Addison Independent that, “ Passing a law that allows physicians to help end a patient’s life under very controlled circumstances… is one such measure that could help” cut costs under Vermont’s new single payer health plan? That’s … [Read more...] about We Don’t Believe It! Did the Vermont Commissioner of Health Care Administration Really Say Legalizing Assisted Suicide Would Help Cut Costs under Vermont’s Single Payer Health Plan?
Assisted Suicides for Debt Reduction?
Like many others engaged in the assisted suicide fight I read David Brooks’s op-ed titled Death and Budgets in the opinion pages of the July 14th New York Times with shocked repulse. His op-ed suggests that end-of-life care is a primary cause of our current financial crisis, and assisted suicide should be promoted for the sick, disabled and elderly to reduce medical costs and … [Read more...] about Assisted Suicides for Debt Reduction?