…(Shelterforce, 06/12/23) New lawsuit takes aim at California’s assisted suicide laws (Angelus News, 06/08/23) Aid-in-dying supporters see progress for long-stalled New York proposal (NY State of Politics, 06/07/23) Top Princeton scholar Peter Singer SLAMMED for promoting euthanasia — even for sick babies — as he tours US, UK, and Australia with what critics call a theory of ‘dangerous eugenics’ (Daily Mail, 06/06/23) Medical Aid in Dying Act gets…
…lengthy position paper opposing legalization of assisted suicide. The Council compellingly summarized its concerns as follows: The dangers of permitting physician-assisted suicide are immense. The pressures upon people with disabilities to choose to end their lives, and the insidious appropriation by others of the right to make that choice for them are already prevalent and will continue to increase as managed health care and limitations upon hea…
…lengthy position paper opposing legalization of assisted suicide. The Council compellingly summarized its concerns as follows: The dangers of permitting physician-assisted suicide are immense. The pressures upon people with disabilities to choose to end their lives, and the insidious appropriation by others of the right to make that choice for them are already prevalent and will continue to increase as managed health care and limitations upon h…
…lengthy position paper opposing legalization of assisted suicide. The Council compellingly summarized its concerns as follows: The dangers of permitting physician-assisted suicide are immense. The pressures upon people with disabilities to choose to end their lives, and the insidious appropriation by others of the right to make that choice for them are already prevalent and will continue to increase as managed health care and limitations upon hea…
…k Force on Life and the Law (see footnote 6 of this brief). Additional deficiencies of patient protections in the Oregon and Washington assisted suicide laws include the fact that no treatment for depression is required.[42] Moreover, as previously noted, the top five reasons that prescribing physicians report for assisted suicide requests are psycho-social reactions to disability. Two of them are loss of autonomy (92%) and feelings of being a bur…
