Residents of Colorado recently approved physician-assisted suicide by a margin of 2-to-1. Yet the full ramifications of this decision must be considered. Read more >>
Continue Reading → COLORADO, USA: Physician-assisted suicide is too risky:
Legalizing assisted suicide has become a racially-charged issue in Washington D.C. Although laws legalizing assisted suicide have been enacted in a handful of states with a mostly white population, it faces particular opposition in the nation’s capital, home to a large African American community. Read more >>
Continue Reading → Right-to-die law faces skepticism in nation’s capital:
Contrary to claims that there is “no evidence or data” to support claims that laws legalizing assisted suicide are subject to abuse, much evidence has been brought forth showing that concern that the risks of mistake, coercion and abuse are valid. Read more >>
Continue Reading → The real story about safeguards around assisted suicide in Oregon:
Proposition 106 in Colorado would allow any doctor to grant a request for assisted suicide. Yet doctors can be mistaken and occasionally mistakenly diagnose people. Read more >>
Continue Reading → No on assisted suicide proposition 106. It is fatally flawed:
A California woman recently put her insurance provider under the spotlight, alleging that the company offered to pay for assisted suicide, but not chemotherapy. Read more >>
Continue Reading → Insurer offers to pay for assisted suicide but not chemotherapy: