Tag: Colorado

By Jennifer Popik, J.D. Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics Amidst an election night full of surprises, Colorado voters approved Proposition 106, known as the “End of Life Options Act” which will legalize assisted suicide. Colorado becomes the 5th state to legalize the dangerous practice joining California, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont. Additionally, the Supreme Court …

By Dave Andrusko In staving off assisted suicide laws and/or initiatives, at the top of the heap is the opposition of medical associations to proposals to legalize what is now euphemistically labeled “aid in dying.” But in rightly emphasizing the importance of a wide-ranging set of opponents that includes medical groups, we shouldn’t overlook editorial …

By John Stonestreet Whether you live in Colorado or not, you need to know what’s at stake with doctor-assisted death and how to make the case for life. Yesterday on BreakPoint, I told you about the dangers of physician-assisted suicide laws: How they inevitably turn the “right to die” into the “duty to die,” how …

By Wesley J. Smith The media is wholly in the tank for the assisted suicide agenda. Witness the Brittany Maynard PR blitz and the recent stories about a happy “right to die” party. That is why almost all media followed their marching orders to call assisted suicide “aid in dying.” This polled and focus group-tested …

By Wesley J. Smith When people say assisted suicide is only for the terminally ill, I know they are either lying or ignorant of what the movement really wants. If suicide or killing is an acceptable response to a terminal diagnosis, why not also for those who will suffer perhaps more and for a longer …

By Wesley J. Smith The media and many other observers continue to pretend that the euthanasia/assisted suicide movement is only about terminal illness. But any observer of events in Europe, Canada, and with Kevorkian demonstrate that isn’t true. Meanwhile, slowly the camouflage is coming off. For example, a proposed constitutional amendment in Colorado pretends to …