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Proponents of physician-assisted suicide struggled to answer the tough questions thrown at them at last week’s Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee hearing on SB 418. The Committee met late into the night with Senators raising significant concerns with the...
Editor’s note. Maryland’s HB 404 would legalize physician-assisted suicide. During the House committee hearing on HB 404, the lead proponent of the bill from Compassion and Choices (formerly the Hemlock Society) argued with a straight-face that requiring a patient to...
Editor’s note. This post appeared Maryland Against Assisted Suicide. · Requiring a professional mental health evaluation would “unnecessarily slow down” patient’s access to physician assisted suicide. · Terminal patients are in pain so this bill must be passed. ·...
Editor’s note. NRL News Today has written about Maryland’s proposed assisted suicide bill here and here. The following comes from the disability rights organization Not Dead Yet. On Tuesday, March 10, the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee conducted a...
By Dave Andrusko Pro-lifers, like me, frequently lament that the face of the debate over assisted suicide ought not to be Brittany Maynard, who chose assisted suicide, but the courageous Lauren Hill. Hill, a freshman at Mt. Saint Joseph College, is battling an...
By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics On an election night with many surprises, one race is particularly welcome to those who oppose doctor-prescribed suicide. In a Maryland gubernatorial election upset, Republican Larry Hogan, who...
By Tom Blumer One would think, based on comparing dispatches from Reuters and the Associated Press, that President Barack Obama must have spoken at two different events in Upper Marlboro, Maryland today. The two dispatches are so radically different in tone and...
A big win in court and the deception of NARAL and PPFA revealed By Dave Andrusko NRL News Today has covered the systematic attack on pregnancy care centers/CPCs going back decades, and, particularly, of late NARAL’s all-out offensive. Let’s catch up with the...
County opts not to appeal after federal judge finds ‘lack of any evidence’ for government’s claims Editor’s note. This update comes from Alliance Defending Freedom. GREENBELT, Md. — A Maryland county has decided not to appeal a March federal court ruling that...
By Dave Andrusko As our last post of the day on Monday, NRL News Today briefly talked about a very important decision rendered by U.S. District Judge Deborah Chasenow. We had just learned that last Friday Judge Chasenow struck down a blatant abridgement of free...