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Vegas Doctor Vouches for Former Colleague’s Account in Assisted Suicide Video
Source: Patients Rights Action Fund A Las Vegas doctor says that he remembers the account described in an anti-assisted-suicide advertisement of an insurer denying life-saving treatment to a patient, while pushing doctors to move forward with a prescription of lethal...
Massachusetts judge allows assisted-suicide lawsuit to move forward
Source: Patients Rights Action Fund A Massachusetts judge ruled that two doctors may move forward with a lawsuit seeking an order that the state’s murder and manslaughter laws do not apply to physicians who offer lethal medications to terminally ill patients. Superior...
‘Medical aid in dying’ is a euphemism
Source: Patients Rights Action Fund Dr. Rebecca Thoman, a representative of Compassion & Choices and not a Massachusetts resident, recently responded to my column in which I urged rejection of doctor-prescribed suicide. Her column helped make my point that those...
NY’s highest court to weigh physician-assisted suicide lawsuit
Source: Patients Rights Action Fund New York’s highest court will hear arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit that seeks to effectively undo the state’s statute against physician-assisted suicide. An advocacy group, “End of Life Choice New York,” along with some terminally...
Another Voice: Evidence contradicts arguments for assisted suicide
Source: Patients Rights Action Fund On Tuesday, the Court of Appeals will hear Myers v. Schneiderman, a renewed attempt to legalize physician-assisted suicide in New York. The plaintiffs are three patients, two of whom have since died, several physicians and End of...
Maine House rejects assisted suicide bill
Source: Patients Rights Action Fund House lawmakers rejected a bill on Tuesday that would have allowed doctors to prescribe fatal doses of medication to terminally ill patients who want to end their own lives. The bipartisan 85-61 vote against the bill followed...