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By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics Although assisting suicide is only legal for a small fraction of the world’s population, advocates remain focused on promoting this dangerous legislation. Currently, doctor-prescribed suicide is legal in...
By Jennifer Popik, J.D., Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics Today in Montana District court, Judge Mike Menahan is hearing arguments involving doctor-prescribed suicide. At issue is the effort by Montanans Against Assisted Suicide to strike the state Board of...
By Jennifer Popik, JD., Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics On Friday, the Maine House of Representatives overwhelmingly rejected the bill to allow doctor-prescribed suicide by a vote 95-43. The vote is in stark contrast to what happened in Vermont where two weeks...
Editor’s note. The following comes from “No On Question 2,” a broad-based Massachusetts coalition against the ballot Question 2,which would legalize assisted suicide in the Commonwealth. September 10 has been designated World Suicide Prevention Day by the World Health...
By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics In Massachusetts, the latest state to face the threat of legalization of physician assisted suicide, the group that promotes doctor prescribed suicide has cleared one hurdle. ...