A New York Court has rejected a petition by three terminally ill patients to be allowed access to assisted suicide drugs. Read more >>
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One could easily be forgiven for thinking that the whole world is experiencing a massive culture shift towards legislating for assisted suicide. The reality is that euthanasia and assisted suicide are only legal in a handful of countries and states.
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With nearly every state assisted suicide legislative attempt complete, initial data from a research study by Dr. Jacqueline H. Abernathy at Tarleton State University finds a staggering increase in the number of attempts to legalize assisted suicide in U.S. over the past year, in spite of an overwhelming failure rate associated with such legislation: fewer than one percent of all assisted suicide bills become law. Read more >>
Continue Reading → UNITED STATES: Assisted suicide legalization defeated in the US in 2017:
The family of a Californian woman who died of cancer are suing a San Francisco hospital for refusing to assist in her suicide. Read more >>
Momentum is finally shifting against the legalization and expansion of assisted suicide. Twenty-three states have rejected bills attempting to legalize assisted suicide since the beginning of 2017, and these bills are now considered dead for the remainder of the year.
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