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By Dave Andrusko A split British Columbia Court of Appeal today upheld Canada’s ban on physician-assisted suicide. The vote was 2-1. The federal government had appealed what was described as a “landmark” ruling , a reference to “Carter v. Canada,” a 2012 decision in...
By Dave Andrusko The headline on the story is encouraging enough—“Most Doctors Oppose Physician-Assisted Suicide, Poll Finds”—but that’s only the beginning. Here’s the opening paragraph of Steve Reinberg’s story for HealthDay. He is writing about a poll conducted by...
Editor’s note. The following was reproduced on the webpage of Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. It is one of two responses to a case study that appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine on April 11. The “Case Vignette”...
By Alex Schadenberg, executive director Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The following article was written by John Kelly, the leader of the disability rights group “Second Thoughts” and published in the “Providence Journal” on October 31 under the title: “Why to vote...
By Dave Andrusko Add the voice of Victoria Reggie Kennedy, the widow of Sen. Ted Kennedy, to the growing list of opponents of Ballot Question 2 which would legalize physician-assisted suicide in Massachusetts. Earlier today NRL News Today wrote about “The appeal of...
By Dave Andrusko If you would have simply handed me a copy of “Four myth about Doctor-Assisted Suicide,” you could also have given me ten years to guess the author and I would still have come up blank. The op-ed, which appeared over the weekend on the New York Times’...
By Dave Andrusko http://twitter.com/daveha We’ve posted over dozen stories at NRL News Today on “Question 2,” a vitally important Massachusetts ballot initiative that would allow doctors to prescribe (but not administer) a toxic drug to “assist” their patients to...
Editor’s note. This appeared at http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2012/08/physician-assisted-suicide-in-direct.html The following article was published in White Coat News, a part of the Boston Globe, under the title: “Dr. Barbara Rockett: Physician-assisted suicide...
By Dave Andrusko Over the weekend, the Massachusetts Medical Society’s House of Delegates (HOD) voted overwhelmingly to retain the Society’s long-standing opposition to physician assisted suicide. The final tally was 178 to 56. “The HOD unanimously passed...
By Dave Andrusko I ran a brief announcement when the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) announced it was about to debate and vote on a document on physician-assisted suicide at their Spring General Assembly, June 15-17, in Seattle. However—and this...