State attorney general Xavier Becerra has reinstated the state’s physician-assisted suicide law after a temporary ban. The law was passed in 2016. More: Los Angeles Times – “California appeals court reinstates law allowing terminally ill patients to end their lives” Press Release – Coalition for Compassionate Care of California Press Release – Coercion and Cadavers,… Read More California Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Once Again Legal
Don’t Miss The Podcast linked to at the end of this post! You can listen to an in-depth interview with Dr. Aaron Kheriaty. He fought the California law! The interview took place after the law had been “put on hold.” If a person uses the law – uses physician-prescribed drugs to kill their self –… Read More California Assisted Suicide Law Suspended – News Bites, Dr. Kheriaty Podcast
The Jesuits are defiant toward the moral principles of the Catholic Church. Governor Jerry Brown, schooled by Jesuits in seminary, is the most abortion-friendly legislator in the country. Pope Francis, a Jesuit, is frequently criticized by traditional cardinals for his strident comments which are uncharacteristic of a pope. Governor Brown + The Jesuits + Pope… Read More Will Jesuit Radicalism Influence Governor Brown’s Assisted Suicide Decision?
California governor balks at push to eye right-to-die bill. AP. “It is particularly troubling that in this rush to judgment, proponents are linking this bill with health care financing,” said Tim Rosales, a spokesman for Californians Against Assisted Suicide, which includes groups advocating for Catholics, oncologists and people with disabilities. “That should be truly frightening… Read More Assisted Suicide A Medicare Treatment Option?
SB 128 – CA Assisted Suicide Authors Will Not Pursue Bill Further in 2015 Tim Rosales. Californians Against Assisted Suicide. SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — The No On SB 128/Californians Against Assisted Suicide coalition issued the following statement today from Marilyn Golden, No On SB 128 co-chair and Senior Policy Analyst for the Disability… Read More Assisted Suicide Bill Fails in California
For Archbishop Gomez, assisted suicide bill is empty compassion :: Catholic News Agency (CNA). Los Angeles, Calif., Jun 16, 2015 / 12:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- People suffering from terminal illness deserve true compassion and care – not violence, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles said as the California legislature’s assisted suicide bill advances. “It… Read More Los Angeles: Archbishop Gomez, assisted suicide bill is empty compassion
Planned Parenthood Insider Now Works for Assisted Suicide Group | LifeNews.com. EXCERPT: When Compassion & Choices, formerly The Hemlock Society, convened its June 2012 conference, former Planned Parenthood insider Theresa Connor, now director of government affairs with the assisted suicide group, was a featured speaker. She was public policy director for PP in Washington state… Read More Planned Parenthood Insider Now Works for Assisted Suicide Group | LifeNews.com
Assisted suicide: help the rich to not get too much care – SFGate.
These nuns provide ‘death with dignity’ – but it’s not assisted suicide – The Catholic Transcript Online.
Public Testimony PRO / CON ABx2-15 HEARING – Wednesday, September 9, 2015 coming soon. ABx2-15 HEARING – Tues., September 1, 2015 End of Life Option Act SB-128 California State Capitol HEARING NO. 1 – Wed., March 25, 2015 Senate Health Committee. HEARING NO. 2 – Tues., April 7, 2015 at Senate Judiciary. HEARING NO.… Read More Assisted Suicide Hearing Videos
Assisted Suicides in Oregon Jump 44 Percent as Abuses Continue | LifeNews.com. Alex Schadenberg Feb 16, 2015
Liberal Dr. Byock unpacks the euphemisms. ‘Death with Dignity’: A strong dose of skepticism about physician-assisted suicide – LA Times. As someone who supports all those other liberal causes, yet opposes physician-assisted suicide, I’d ask my fellow progressives to shine a cold hard light on this issue. We have been the target of a decades-long… Read More ‘Death with Dignity’: A strong dose of skepticism about physician-assisted suicide – LA Times
Like our Facebook Page, Stop California Assisted Suicide. Poll Taker – California Healthline… Related: “Assisted Suicide Advocates Lie About 2014 California Poll Results.” West Coast ProLife
The Great Resistance! DREDF’s Marilyn Golden Speaks Out Against CA Assisted Suicide Bill Introduced Today. This is what the [L.A. Times] editorial had to say about opponents of assisted suicide: ”The Roman Catholic Church and other groups will almost certainly have strong objections to such a law, but their moral codes should not be imposed… Read More Disability Advocate Marilyn Golden Speaks Out Against CA Assisted Suicide Bill Introduced Today
Only Pro-Assisted Suicide Types Yell “Religion!” | National Review Online. Wesley Smith.
CA Against Assisted Suicide – Media Advisory: Disability Advocates Prepared To Oppose Flurry of State Assisted Suicide Bills Being Introduced in 2015.
Key Objections to the Legalization of Assisted Suicide by DREDF. DREDF = Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, located in California.
Today we examine polling data conducted for The Hemlock Society, dba Compassion and Choices POLL No. 1 – Goodwin Simon polled 500 Californians by telephone. {Population of California = 38.33 Million.} The Hemlock Society, dba Compassion & Choices, is bragging that 64% of polled Californians would support “aid in dying”. The poll was conducted in… Read More Assisted Suicide Advocates Lie About 2014 California Poll Results
Note: This bill has NOT been “introduced” as stated in the article title.–West Coast Pro-Life ———– California Legislator Introduces Bill to Legalize Assisted Suicide After Prior Bills Fail | LifeNews.com. California ProLife Council, [CPLC] working in conjunction with a coalition of life-affirming groups, has defeated California Assisted Suicide proposals in the past. But euthanasia advocates… Read More California Bill to Legalize Assisted Suicide in 2015
TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC TEACHING: We are to unite ourselves with Christ’s suffering on His Cross. Suffering is our pathway to our salvation! Jesus said, “And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth me, is not worthy of me.” Matthew 10:38 Douay-Rheims Bible Holidays are the perfect time to share end-of-life wishes The Lord does… Read More Methodist Minister: Legalize Assisted Suicide because “The Lord Does Not Want Us To Suffer”
Compassion and Choices are predatory! They are exploiting this young woman to push their twisted beliefs about life and death. Physician-assisted suicide ‘sows confusion about the purpose of life and death,’ archbishop says | OregonLive.com. Note that the archbishop did not use the trendy term “death with dignity.” I like that. Archbishop Sample’s Full Statement:… Read More Portland Archbishop Sample: Physician-assisted suicide and Brittany Maynard
Assisted suicides increase again in Oregon: patients being pressured to commit suicide | LifeSiteNews.com. 1/30/2013. Extensive Report EXCERPT: The Oregon assisted suicide law does not prevent elder abuse. Margaret Dore, the President of Choice is an Illusion and a lawyer from Seattle noted that the Oregon assisted suicide statistics are consistent with elder abuse. Dore stated in her article… Read More Assisted suicides increase again in Oregon: patients being pressured to commit suicide
Oregon’s suicide rate is 35 percent higher than the national average. The rate is 15.2 suicides per 100,000 people compared to the national rate of 11.3 per 100,000. Oregon’s Public Health Report: “Suicides in Oregon” “Deaths relating to the death with Dignity Act (physician-assisted suicides) are not classified as suicides by Oregon law and therefore… Read More Oregon Bemoans High Suicide Rate While State Promotes Assisted Suicide
From the “Wish We Had A Movie Star Spokesperson” department… Dear Readers, A young patient with brain cancer moved from California to Oregon to take advantage of the state’s PAS law (physician assisted suicide). Hemlock Society Logo AGGRESSIVE AD CAMPAIGN: NOW IT BEGINS After gathering information I conclude that this is an aggressive ad campaign… Read More Aggressive Publicity for Medical Suicide by Hemlock Society – Brittany Maynard
click here: Redefining Physicians’ Role in Assisted Dying — New England Journal of Medicine EXCERPT: Many medical professionals are uncomfortable with the idea of physicians playing an active role in ending patients’ lives,1 and the American Medical Association (AMA) and various state medical groups oppose legalization. This position is not an insurmountable barrier, however; we… Read More Medical Journal: Unwilling Doctors Are A Barrier To Patient Suicide
About this blog post image The Modern Hippocratic Oath. PBS. 2001. The excerpt says: Yet paradoxically, even as the modern oath’s use has burgeoned, its content has tacked away from the classical oath’s basic tenets. According to a 1993* survey of 150 U.S. and Canadian medical schools, for example, only 14 percent of modern oaths… Read More How Abortion Leads to Euthanasia
Offensive, crude, unnecessary. The AARP Promotes Reading Material, Radio Programs and Magazine Articles that appear to be taken right off of Barbara Coombs Lee’s coffee table. She’s the death of the party. If you are a Baby Boomer then the people at the AARP have something to teach you about your very own personal death! … Read More AARP Is Fixated On Death, Just Like Compassion and Choices
THE RIGHT TO LIFE page 8 2012 The California Republican Party is the part y that protects innocent life because we believe life begins at conception and ends at natural death. We support laws that protect unborn children from partial birth, sex selection, and tax-payer funded abortions, and abortions performed as a form of birth… Read More The GOP Party Platform: Is It Protecting All Life?
S. 1549 The Care Planning Act of 2015 Introduced in U.S. Senate Two Articles: 1. Care Planning Act Introduced in U.S. Senate by Wesley Smith Excerpt This bill would – no doubt in my mind – enable Compassion and Choices [C & C] to meet its ambition of becoming the Planned Parenthood of death by… Read More U.S. Senate Bill could ‘nudge’ the elderly to choose premature death
On March 30, 2015, in opposition to the push for doctor-assisted suicide, the Heritage Foundation presents . . . Living Life to Its Fullest: Supporting the Sick and Elderly in their Most Vulnerable Hours Co-hosted by In recent months, heartbreaking stories of Americans struggling with devastating diagnoses have captured our empathy. In response, activists are… Read More Living Life To The Fullest Symposium: Support the Sick and Elderly – Heritage Video
Compassion and Choices Used Brittany Maynard’s Death to Secretly Collect Signatures for an Assisted Suicide Petition. WATCH THE VIDEO of a little known investigation, A Petition Without Choices. Throughout the month of October 2014, many people followed the story of Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old brain cancer patient who planned to take her own life. Compassion… Read More EXPOSED! Compassion & Choices Use Deceptive Practices
“There is no way to stop the slide once a society steps onto the slippery slope by legalizing physician-assisted suicide.” Herbert Hendin, MD. before U.S. Congress in 1996. Why Is Doctor-Assisted Suicide the Path to Euthanasia? “The Netherlands has moved from assisted-suicide to euthanasia, from euthanasia for people who are terminally ill to euthanasia for… Read More Euthanasia Quotes – CON
This page has reports about abuses and coercions taking place under Oregon’s “Death With Dignity Act”, aka euthanasia. Barbara Wagner When Barbara Wagner’s doctor prescribed a drug that would likely extend her life and would make her more comfortable, her state insurance program refused to authorize payment for it. Instead, it sent her a letter… Read More Oregon’s Death Law Abuses
HB-3337 would re-define “terminal illness” from being given six months to live increased to one year. Proposed by Oregon Rep. Mitch Greenlick (D-OR). Oregon Assisted Suicides are Out of Control, Now the Legislature Wants More People to Die Gayle Atteberry. Life News. March 2, 2015. Rep. Mitch Greenlick, Chair of the House Committee on Health… Read More Oregon Proposed Bill Would Expand Euthanasia Law
West Coast Pro-life Editor TODAY, Germans are horrified at the mention of euthanasia, aka assisted suicide! They’ve run that failed experiment! Be careful of what you don’t understand entirely. The popularity towards “assisted suicide” is due to money. The Institutes of Medicine are fascinated by death studies and how will Medicare pay for health care… Read More Euthanasia Quotes – PRO
You can order these publications for a very low price. Distribute them at church, neighbors, family, your own doctor. ‘Informed: A guide for critical medical decisions’ from Human Life Alliance. Informed is an introductory tool to help patients, families and surrogates more fully participate in the interaction with doctors and other health professionals. Topics include: … Read More End-Of-Life Brochures
BIOETHICS. January 14, 2014. By Harold Cassidy. “Teach Your Children: Assisted Suicide and My Family.” No one wants pain. But the debate about assisted suicide is not just about those who are terminally ill and in pain. It is about all of us. By voting for assisted suicide, we are implicated in an intrinsically immoral… Read More Life Doesn’t End In Coma for Man With Neisseria Meningitis
When Oregon voters legalized PAS – physician assisted suicide – I recalled that 64% of Oregonians polled also believed that astrology was real. More and More Americans Think Astrology Is Science | Mother Jones.
PAS = Physician Assisted Suicide California Nurses for Ethical Standards in the news. California Needs Law for Death with Dignity in California. Published in the Orange County Register, October 14, 2014. http://www.ocregister.com/articles/death-638464-dignity-life.html Excerpt: ” I often have thought that our society treats pets with far more compassion than it does human beings, allowing animals to… Read More California Nurses for Ethical Standards Against PAS
Oregon, Vermont, Washington, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands are the only places in the world that have laws specifically permitting doctor-assisted suicide. Abuses and Complication in Oregon and Washington State. PDF. NoAssistedSuicideCA.org. Euthanasia Advocates Will Never Stop at the Terminally Ill: The Case of Tom Mortier. Telegraph. Assisted Suicides in Oregon Jump 44% as Abuses… Read More Euthanasia News & Abuses
DIRECT KILLING or withholding life-sustaining treatment is occurring in America’s hospice programs. (Hospice settings can be in a private home or a care center.) Hospice care for Medicare patients over 65 saves millions of dollars for Medicare: it’s cheaper to put a patient in hospice than in the hospital. However, hospital treatments could be the… Read More Stealth Euthanasia and Hospice
This section is taken from Physicians for Compassionate Care, Dr. William Toffler, et al., located in Oregon. They are opposed to assisted suicide and euthanasia. Definitions Euthanasia: A doctor or other person administers a lethal agent, such as an overdose of medication or gas, to another person, with the intent of causing the other person’s… Read More EUTHANASIA – FACTS
Paul Hsieh. Forbes. 9/29/14. Who Decides What Medical Care You Receive At End of Life Real Clear Politics. 10/14/14. “Death on Demand Is Not Death With Dignity.” Marilyn Golden worries lest “profit-driven managed health care” subtly steer the sick in the direction of — what’s the word? — dignity. Dr. B.J. Miller wonders whether in… Read More End-of-Life Care News
Important! You can order these publications for a very low price. Distribute them at church, neighbors, family, your own doctor. ‘Informed: A guide for critical medical decisions’ from Human Life Alliance. Informed is an introductory tool to help patients, families and surrogates more fully participate in the interaction with doctors and other health professionals. Topics… Read More Pro-Life Publications Help Make End-Of-Life Decisions
THE GOOD AND THE BAD Catholics need to know the difference between TWO prominent Catholic health care associations: The Catholic Health Association of the United States ( CHAUSA ) vs. the Catholic Medical Association ( CMA ). The Bad . . . 1. CHAUSA is led by the religious sister who got in trouble with… Read More Catholic End-of-Life Resources
Career politician Oregon Rep. 3rd District Earl Blumenauer (Democrat) and his relationship with The Hemlock Society. Hemlock Earl The Hemlock Society’s new name is “Compassion & Choices. ” They have the same goal: legalizing assisted suicide. C&C says the “Right-To-Die” is a “civil right” Read on. On October 4, 2011, C&C announced the opening of… Read More Poison Pen Pals: Earl Blumenauer and The Hemlock Society
National Suicide Hotline: 800-784-2433 http://www.SuicideHotlines.com ———————————————————————————————————————————- The Hemlock Society has a new name, “Compassion and Choices.” Watch this video of Democrat from Oregon Rep. 3rd District Earl Blumenauer speak in 2010 at their Portland headquarters, where assisted suicide was legalized in 1997. My rule: use their original name, the Hemlock Society. Their life’s work: … Read More Earl Blumenauer Speaks at Hemlock Society in 2010 – Video
PRESS RELEASE February 4, 2011 (Portland, Ore) The Oregon legislature is considering passage of a bill which would provide tax credits to living donors of vital organs such as a kidney or partial liver. Living donors would be rewarded with a maximum $1,000 tax credit. The bill has been referred to the Revenue Committee. H.B.… Read More Vital Organ Donors May Receive Tax Credit in Oregon
No exceptions, no compromise West Coast Pro-Life is an independent, Catholic, nonviolent, † educational and networking project whose owner is located near Sacramento CA. We are dedicated to one simple concept — that all human beings are to be protected and defended from the moment of creation until natural death. We are in 100% agreement… Read More About Us
From Patients Rights Council . . . Dutch euthanasia expert: “We were wrong—terribly wrong, in fact.” A Dutch expert on euthanasia has not only stopped supporting the death practice and the euthanasia law for which he campaigned, but he has made the reasons for his about-face public—something usually frowned upon in Dutch circles. Professor Theo… Read More Dutch Euthanasia Expert: “We Were Terribly Wrong”
Ideologues from 1960’s counter culture — homosexuals, feminists, drug cultists, hippy or Communist preachers — are gathering once again. This time they are attempting to impose their views about dying. They are obsessive about slogans: “a perfect death,” “death with dignity,” etc. Updated July 17, 2015 If Planned Parenthood’s abortionist didn’t kill you in your… Read More Right to Abortion and Right-To-Die Movements Attract Same Ideologues
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