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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED DEATH Professor Valerie J. Vollmar Willamette University College of Law Copyright 2007 *NOTE: The title of this report uses the term “physician-assisted death” instead of “physician-assisted suicide” for the first time. The reasons for this change are described below under “National Developments.” The report continues to use the term “physician-assisted suicide” when that term appears in the original source. The address and title of this website remain unchanged for ease in accessing the site. LEGISLATION Arizona Physician-assisted suicide and advance directive to control suffering. In January 2007, Representative Linda Lopez and eight other Democrats introduced HB 2572, which is similar to the Oregon Death with Dignity Act. On the same date, they also introduced HB 2357, which would amend Arizona’s advance directive statutes so that a person could indicate a desire to control suffering in the event of terminal illness by obtaining a prescription for lethal medication; the advance directive would have to be executed at least three months before the person requests a prescription. As was the case with comparable legislation introduced in 2005 and 2006, the bills have not advanced in the legislature. Million Geezer March. On 1/24/07, Representative Lopez joined other supporters of the proposed legislation in demonstrating outside the state capitol in Phoenix. California Bill introduced. On 2/15/07, Assemblywoman Patty Berg, Assemblymen Lloyd Levine, and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez introduced AB 374 (the California Compassionate Choices Act) in the California legislature. Twenty-four other members of the legislature co-authored the bill, which was patterned after the Oregon Death with Dignity Act but requires a mental health evaluation by a psychiatrist or psychologist if the patient is not in hospice care. -
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Death with Dignity Or Obscenity? Page 1 of 11
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Death with Dignity or Obscenity? Page 1 of 11 SEARCH BLOG FLAG BLOG Next Blog» Create Blog | Sign In Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Friday, October 17, 2008 Followers (12) Death with Dignity or Obscenity? Follow this blog By Jean Echlin, Nurse Consultant - Palliative Care & Gerontology To die, to sleep-- To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub, 12 Followers View All For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Must give us pause. http://www.epcc.ca/ An excerpt from a monologue in the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare About Me ALEX SCHADENBERG A Sea of Trust? Alex Schadenberg There is a draconian evil moving aggressively is the executive through our culture. It comes in the form of a director of the lethal cult called Compassion & Choices or Euthanasia Prevention Coalition - Death With Dignity. Its leaders and adherents support the cause of euthanasia and assisted Canada, the Chair of the suicide which they call "aid-in-dying." Some Euthanasia Prevention Coalition - adherents, who want death on demand, have International Website: a strong desire to die at the time of their choosing. However this is www.epcc.ca, Email: a deadly and distorted ideology. Its leaders insist that physicians, nurses or other health care providers prescribe and give lethal [email protected],. Call: 1-877-439- injections, provide the gas, or the drugs necessary to kill a person, 3348. or give them the means to kill themselves. This may include a View my complete profile plastic "Exit Bag" or simply a plastic garbage bag secured over the face, head and neck in order to dispense with oxygen. -
Physician-Assisted Suicide
Recent Developments in Physician-Assisted Suicide June 2003 Copyright © 2003 Valerie J. Vollmar, all rights reserved. LITIGATION 1. Oregon v. Ashcroft, 192 F.Supp.2d 1077 (D.Or. 2002), appeal pending, No. 02-35587 (9th Cir.) a. Case Filed. On 11/7/01, in response to Attorney General John Ashcroft's directive that prescribing lethal medication was not a legitimate medical purpose under the Controlled Substances Act, the State of Oregon filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief. The court allowed several individual patients, a physician, and a pharmacist to intervene as plaintiffs supporting the position of the state of Oregon. Named defendants included Attorney General John Ashcroft, Asa Hutchinson (Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration), Kenneth W. Magee (Director of the Portland DEA office), the United States of America, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The court allowed several organizations to file amicus briefs. b. U.S. District Court decision. On 4/17/02, Judge Robert E. Jones issued his written decision in favor of plaintiff and plaintiff-intervenors. Oregon v. Ashcroft, 192 F.Supp.2d 1077 (D.Or. 2002). Judge Jones permanently enjoined defendants from "enforcing, applying, or otherwise giving any legal effect to" Ashcroft's directive and ordered that health care providers in Oregon "shall not be subject to criminal prosecution, professional disciplinary action or other administrative proceedings -
Exit in Exile on 6 January 2006, Exit International Will Zealand Society’S Offer of Office Space and Be Forced Into Political Exile
e-Deliverance Practical Options - Real Choices December Exit International 2005 Exit In Exile On 6 January 2006, Exit International will Zealand Society’s offer of office space and be forced into political exile. In direct re- resources for the future. Exit looks for- sponse to the new Suicide ward to a productive and Related Materials Of- prosperous working part- fences Law, Exit’s website nership with VE New will be relocated to New Zealand. Zealand and Exit Director Dr Philip Nitschke will What does the new law start a professional life of mean for Exit members? commuting between New In short the Suicide Zealand and Australia in an Related Materials Of- effort to maintain Exit In- fences Act makes it a crime ternational as Australia’s to use a “carriage service” preeminent end of life to discuss end of life is- choices organization. sues. Carriage services covered by this new law are Dr Nitschke WILL NOT, the telephone, fax, email however, be taking up resi- and the Internet. The new dency in New Zealand. law DOES NOT cover face to face meetings (work- In New Zealand, the Exit International shops) or the mail service (Australia Post) or website will be hosted by the Voluntary Eu- books – at least not at this stage. Members thanasia Society of New Zealand. It is with may still write letters to Exit and attend Exit gratitude that Exit has accepted the New workshops, clinics etc. The Peanut Project Launches On the last weekend in October this year, the Exit International Peaceful Pill weekend took place on a remote property in rural New South Wales. -
November 2007 VES NSW Newsletter
VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES (INCORPORATED) ACN 002 545 235 Patron: Prof Peter Baume AO FRACP FRACGP Telephone: (02) 9212 4782 NEWSLETTER ISSN 0813-5614 Number 113 November 2007 Contents Doctors for AMA Neutrality 1 DOCTORS FOR AMA Protest Rally in Gosford 2 Moral Medicine 2 NEUTRALITY A Warning from Right to Die2 The Australian Medical Association’s view on euthanasia is ‘out WebPages of Interest 3 of step’, according to a group of doctors lobbying for the For your diary 3 decriminalisation of VE. The group of 29 medical practitioners from around Australia is called Doctors for AMA Neutrality and New Coordinator 4 the group’s spokesman, Professor Arnold Gillespie, said that Caren Jenning to Stand Trial 4 the AMA was against the idea of a doctor being involved in Book Review - Unplugged 4 assisting VE or even prescribing a drug that would end a patient’s Irish Radio 5 life – ‘policy which does not best represent or protect doctors Poem - The Heretic 5 or patients’. Another member of the group, Adelaide GP Dr David Tye, said the group doesn’t believe the AMA can take part Put VE on the Agenda 5 in euthanasia debate when it has a position ‘on one side of the Net Block Plan Slammed 6 fence’. Source: Janet Grist, AMA euthanasia view ‘out of step’, Commonly Asked Q&A 7 Australian Doctor, 12 September 2007. In its February issue, Ten Tips 8 the article, referred to two GPs now involved in federal politics How The Struggle Was Won 9 who have drawn on their own medical experience to further the cause of legalised euthanasia in the wake of one doctor’s public Central Coast News 10 journey to end his life. -
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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED DEATH Professor Valerie J. Vollmar Willamette University College of Law Copyright 2007 LITIGATION Montana case filed. On 10/19/07, a suit over the right to die with dignity was filed in the Lewis and Clark County District Court in Helena, Montana. The plaintiffs include two patients who are terminally ill, 53-year-old Steven Stoelb and 75-year-old Robert Baxter; four Missoula physicians who treat terminally-ill patients—Stephen Speckart, C. Paul Loehnen, Lar Autio, and George Risi, Jr.; and a nonprofit patients’ rights organization. The two patients are represented by Mark S. Connell, a Missoula attorney, and Kathryn Tucker, legal affairs director for Compassion & Choices. The plaintiffs claim that the state statutes criminalizing assisted suicide violate the state constitution, including Article II, Section Four, which provides: “The dignity of the human being is inviolable.” The case is expected to reach the Montana Supreme Court. LEGISLATION Arizona. Every year since 2003, Representative Linda Lopez has introduced a bill similar to the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, as well as a bill that would amend Arizona’s advance directive statutes so that a person could indicate a desire to control suffering in the event of terminal illness by obtaining a prescription for lethal medication. Although the proposed legislation has never received a hearing, Lopez has indicated that she will continue to introduce the bills. California. On 2/15/07, Assemblywoman Patty Berg, Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez introduced AB 374 (the California Compassionate Choices Act) in the California legislature. The bill was patterned after the Oregon Death with Dignity Act but required a mental health evaluation by a psychiatrist or psychologist if the patient was not in hospice care. -
Physician-Assisted Suicide
Recent Developments in Physician-Assisted Suicide March 2003 Copyright © 2003 Valerie J. Vollmar, all rights reserved. LITIGATION 1. Oregon v. Ashcroft, 192 F.Supp.2d 1077 (D.Or. 2002), appeal pending, No. 02-35587 (9th Cir.). a. Case Filed. On 11/7/01, in response to Attorney General John AshcroftÕs directive that prescribing lethal medication was not a legitimate medical purpose under the Controlled Substances Act, the State of Oregon filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief. The court allowed several individual patient plaintiffs, a physician, and a pharmacist to intervene as plaintiffs supporting the position of the state of Oregon. Named defendants included Attorney General John Ashcroft, Asa Hutchinson (Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration), Kenneth W. Magee (Director of the Portland DEA office), the United States of America, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The court allowed several organizations to file amicus briefs. b. U.S. District Court decision. On 4/17/02, Judge Robert E. Jones issued his written decision in favor of plaintiff and plaintiff-intervenors. Oregon v. Ashcroft, 192 F.Supp.2d 1077 (D.Or. 2002). Judge Jones permanently enjoined defendants from "enforcing, applying, or otherwise giving any legal effect to" AshcroftÕs directive and ordered that health care providers in Oregon "shall not be subject to criminal prosecution, professional disciplinary action or other administrative