We have some great news to share with you. At midnight on Monday, April 11th the Maryland General Assembly’s 2016 legislative session ended with no action taken on the proposed physician assisted suicide legislation – HB 404/SB 418. As we told you earlier this spring, the Senate version of the bill was withdrawn from consideration...
Read MoreWe have known for a while that the proponents of assisted suicide will stop at nothing to advance support for this policy. That said, the latest news is an angle we haven’t expected to see utilized. They want to make the suicide drugs cheaper to purchase – as though access was the primary problem with...
Read MoreWe have great news to report from the assisted suicide debate raging in New York State, where the national leadership of assisted suicide proponents have concentrated their efforts after so many recent losses. They may need to prepare for another defeat, as the coalitions of people negatively impacted by assisted suicide continue to gain strength....
Read MoreIn our new blog series “The Facts Remain” we will explore the fundamental flaws in the Maryland physician-assisted suicide legislation and similar bills across the country. The first installment covers healthcare discrimination. One of the most insidious dangers in legalizing physician-assisted suicide is how it consummates the acceptance of deeply flawed end-of-life care in Maryland...
Read MoreAs spring begins and many legislative sessions across the country come to an end (including Maryland’s in the coming weeks) we thought it would be interesting to see how proposed physician assisted suicide legislation fared in other states this year. According to one of the bill’s lead proponents, the Death with Dignity National Center, bills...
Read MoreYet another state has rightly decided that the real concerns about physician assisted suicide are simply too significant to ignore. This time, Minnesota has decided to table the legislative debate on the subject. The hearing for this legislation, like so many around the country, brought the full weight of those concerns to bear, and it...
Read MoreOur effort to defeat physician assisted suicide legislation in Maryland was undertaken by a broad coalition with a range of important concerns brought to bear. Because of that breadth and depth of concern, we were able to defeat the legislation for now. But make no mistake, the proponents of this legislation will be back, and...
Read MoreWe have been thrilled with the positive developments in Maryland. So much so that we haven’t kept folks up to speed on the positive developments continuing around the country, fighting back against the misguided policy of physician assisted suicide. One such example of continued vigilance paying off is in Utah, where the legislature decided to...
Read MoreAgain, we know that the legislation to implement physician assisted suicide appears to thankfully have been defeated in this session, but we still want to recap the House and Senate hearings held on this bill. This is instructive for remembering how this legislation can be defeated in the future. In fact, this recap should instill...
Read MoreWe have obviously reached a turning point in the assisted suicide debate in Maryland. The legislation has been withdrawn in the Senate and, though unconfirmed, is likely to be withdrawn in the House. This happened because of incredible advocacy from a diverse coalition, and an unfailing drive to convey the real problems with the policy...
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