…tion of disability rights organizations, doctors, nurses, community leaders, faith based groups and patient rights advocates. www.NoOnQuestion2.org www.Twitter.com/NoOnQuestion2MA www.Facebook.com/NoOnBallotQuestion2 …
…us.” Brody, H, A bioethicist offers an apology, Health, Oct 6 2004, http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/lansing/archives/041006/features/health.asp OPTN/UNOS has made similar mistakes, which should be corrected rather than being again codified into public policy. While the organ procurement community is not solely responsible to develop safeguards to ensure that an individual’s decision to withdraw life sustaining treatment is truly informed and volun…
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…formation about problems with legalization of assisted suicide, please see www.notdeadyet.org and www.montanansagainstassistedsuicide.org. Diane Coleman, President/CEO, Not Dead Yet, Rochester, New York (note – URL in text above is different than the one that originally appeared in the letter. The Elder Abuse Daily site seems to be defunct – sadly, organizations that concern themselves with reporting and preventing elder abuse have a harder time f…
…in. In many cases, there is no single, clear reason. – See more at: http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/lets_put_this_pet_theory_to_sleep#sthash.iGZcP18q.dpuf the statistics on the euthanasia rates of animal rates in shelters paint a grim picture. The reasons owners abandon them there aren’t very pretty either: * They are abandoned and unwanted. According to the American Humane Association, “56% of dogs and 71% of cats that enter animal shelt…
