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By Dave Andrusko Thanks go out to Mary Hahn Beerworth, executive director of Vermont Right to Life, without whose vigilance Vermonters would not know that “Planned Parenthood is now performing surgical abortions up to 18 weeks after the start of a woman’s last...
By Alex Schadenberg, executive director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition If assisted suicide is good for Vermont then why is the suicide lobby needing to attach the assisted suicide bill to a bill that regulates the use of tanning beds in Vermont? If the Vermont...
By Wesley J. Smith I predicted this in my annual prognistication: Unless something drastic happens, Vermont’s assisted suicide bill has been killed in committee. Good riddance, says I. Interestingly, the Lieutenant Governor, who would break a tie vote in the Vermont...
By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics While physician assisted suicide remains illegal across nearly every jurisdiction in the United States, those who tirelessly promote doctor prescribed death are on a all-out blitz in New England. There...
By Jennifer Popik, JD, Legislative Counsel, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics While the country and the 50 states are largely focused on the economy, jobs, and budgets, assisted suicide advocates, namely Compassion and Choices, have been hard at work seeking to...
Editor’s note. The following appears today on the blog of “True Dignity Vermont: Vermont Citizens Against Assisted Suicide” at http://truedignityvt.org/?p=273. It is an op-ed that appeared in today’s issue of the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press. My Turn: Social...
Editor’s note. This appears on the blog of “True Dignity Vermont: Vermont Citizens Against Assisted Suicide,” at http://truedignityvt.org/?p=268 According to an article posted at http://vtdigger.org/2011/08/07/abused-vulnerable-adults, ”The state is struggling to...
Editor’s note. The following appears on the website of True Dignity Vermont: Vermont Citizens Against Assisted Suicide. Can Stephen Kimbell, Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration, have really told the...
Editor’s note. This appears at “True Dignity Vermont: Vermont Citizens Against Assisted Suicide,” at http://truedignityvt.org/?p=220 Assisted suicide is illegal in the United Kingdom. Parliament has rejected six attempts to make it legal, the last in January 2010,...
Editor’s note. This appeared yesterday on the blog of True Dignity: Vermont Citizens Against Assisted Suicide. We are about to be subjected to multiple HBO screenings of a film called “How to Die in Oregon” that won the prize for best documentary at the Sundance Film...