In a new article that appeared in The Voice of Experience newsletter of the American Bar Association, Washington State elder law attorney Margaret Dore explained how she got involved in the fight against legalization of assisted suicide. The ABA newsletter is only available to subscribers, but the article, Preventing Abuse and Exploitation: A Personal Shift […]
Rochester, NY (PRWEB) June 15, 2013 June 15 is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. In honor of the day, Not Dead Yet, a national disability rights group, urges elder abuse professionals to speak out against legalization of assisted suicide. “Most states reject assisted suicide,” says Diane Coleman, Not Dead Yet’s President and CEO. “Assisted suicide is legal […]
(Editor’s note – this should have been posted over a week ago. The timelag between the writing of this post and the publishing on the blog is entirely my responsibility. –SD) I grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, so when the Kalamazoo Gazette’s October 1st edition featured three opinion pieces supporting assisted suicide, I had to […]
Margaret Dore has been doing strong work exposing the pitfalls and logical fallacies that are embedded in the framework of Washington State’s “Death With Dignity” law. She does so from the perspective of a lawyer who specializes in Elder Law. Recently, the King County Bar Association published her analysis of the newly-passed assisted suicide legislation […]
