The Dangerous Advance on Assisted Suicide You Probably Haven’t Heard About

By Bobby Schindler We’re living through a time when there seems to be something new and alarming in the news every day. Our media cycle is dominated by the dramatic, and one consequence of this is that alarming events can unfold on the state and local level going unnoticed despite their ultimately national consequences. One …

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Oregon Senate Bill 494 will starve and dehydrate incompetent people to death

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition In Oregon, the Senate is debating a deceptive bill (SB 494) that appears to simply replace the current advanced directives legislation, but in fact promotes the withholding or withdrawal of nutrition and hydration (food and water) from people who are incompetent and not dying. In 2006, I …

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