By Dave Andrusko Less than a year after the conviction of William Melchert Dinkel, who trolled the internet looking for depressed people so he could tell them how to kill themselves, a Dakota County jury this morning convicted the Final Exit Network of assisting in a suicide of a woman who lived in Apple … Read more
By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics Compassion & Choices President Barbara Coombs Lee In a record push, Compassion and Choices or C&C (formerly the Hemlock Society) has introduced bills in nearly half of U.S. states. Although they are promoted as simply another medical option at the end of life, comments made … Read more
By Gayle Atteberry, Executive Director, Oregon Right to Life Oregon, the first state to legalize assisted suicide, just released numbers on those who killed themselves via physician assisted suicide in 2014. The numbers, while shocking, bring reality to the warnings from pro-lifers: suicides skyrocketed 44% over the previous year. Physician assisted suicide has become the … Read more
By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics New Jersey State Senator Joseph Vitale New Jersey State Senator Joseph Vitale (D-Middlesex), the powerful chairman of the Senate Health Committee who had been the prime sponsor of a doctor-prescribed suicide bill, announced that he has withdrawn his support for the measure. Vitale told … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Brittany Maynard with her Great Dane, Charlie (Courtesy Dan Diaz) Like most people will, I suspect, I have a multitude of reactions to news that a 29-year-old woman is teaming up with Compassion & Choices to use her own assisted suicide to help convince the state of California to open the … Read more
By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics Jennifer Popik, JD Last week, the New Hampshire House of Representatives resoundingly rejected several dangerous bills, including HB1325. By a vote of 219-66 the House voted down HB1325. New Hampshire, along with other New England states, continues to be a high priority target of … Read more
Editor’s note. The following letter was sent to Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition whose blog appears at alexschadenberg.blogspot.com. HB1325 would legalize physician-assisted suicide in New Hampshire. Dear Editor: I , William Reichel, M.D., am a physician who has been involved in Medical Ethics since 1984, and since 1998, I am Affiliated … Read more
By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics Jennifer Popik, JD Although assisting suicide is only legal for a small fraction of the world’s population, advocates remain focused on promoting this dangerous legislation. Currently, doctor-prescribed suicide is legal in only Oregon, Washington, and Vermont –and may have some legal protection in the state … Read more
By Jennifer Popik, JD Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics Editor’s note. While my family and I are on vacation, we are running some of our favorite NRL News Today stories from the last four months, entries from our “Roe at 40″ series, and an occasional update. Jennifer Popik, JD After a decade-long and hard-fought … Read more
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and is CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. The Sunday Times, in line with its new editorial policy, ran a typically effusive article last weekend about last night’s ‘documentary’ in … Read more