"We need a society that cares ...not kills its citizens" . . . Euthanasia Opponent Alex Schadenberg.

US Supreme Court Cases

• Washington v. Glucksberg Supreme Court Ruling (1997)
  
• Vacco v. Quill Supreme Court Ruling (1997)
  
• Gonzales v. Oregon (2005)
  

Canadian Court Rulings on Assisted Suicide and Other Issues

• FIRST READING: How Canada Ignored Warnings That Euthanasia Would Immediately Go Too Far (2022)
  
• Shopping For a Death Doctor in Canada (2022)
  
• The Mad Rush To Implement MAiD Legislation (2021)
  
• Proposed Canadian Assisted Dying Regulations Overlook Many Important Details (2018)
  
• Stephen Harper Appointed 6 of 9 Supreme Court Justices Who Dictated Euthanasia for Canada (2016)
  
• Canada's Supreme Court Creates Right to Assisted Suicide, Leaves Details Up to Parliament (2015)
  
• Judicial Tyranny: In 2010, Canada's Parliament, Rejected Legalized Euthanasia By 226 to 59 (2015)
  
• Canadians: Petition Parliament to Block Supreme Court Assisted Suicide Ruling (2015)
  

U.S. Legislation on Assisted Suicide

• Death Activists Oppose Limits on Virtual Access to Assisted Suicide (2023)
  
• The Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) (2022)
  
• Why Montana Voters Rejected the "Born Alive Infant Protection Act" (2022)
  
• US Bill Outlaws Online Suicide Assistance (2022)
  
• Congressional Resolution 68: Addressing the Risk of Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide (2022)
  
• Assisted-Suicide Mendacity: Today's "Strict Protections" Become Tomorrow's Unjust "Barriers" (2021)
  
• Sign The Petition: No Assisted Suicide By Telehealth (2021)
  
• No Assisted Suicide by Telehealth (2021)
  
• Opposing Assisted Suicide by Telehealth (2021)
  
• Connecticut Assisted Suicide Bill Died Based On The Dangerous Language In The Bill (2021)
  
• Legislative Efforts of the Disability Rights Group "Not Dead Yet" (2021)
  
• Born-Alive Abortion Survivors --- US Senate Votes on a 2021 motion "To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving health care to prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion."
  
• Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act --- US Senate Votes on a 2020 bill "to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion."
  
• Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act --- US Senate Votes on a 2019 bill "to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion."
  
• Anti-Euthanasia Organizations Sound Alarm On Federal End-of-life Bill (2020)
  
• Wenstrup, Correa Introduce Bipartisan Legislation on the Dangers of Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide (2019)
  
• U.S. Congress Resolution H.Con. Res.79: Assisted Suicide Puts Everyone At Risk Of Deadly Harm (2019)
  
• U.S. Congress Resolution H.Con. Res.79: FULL TEXT (2019)
  
• New York Testimony of Sharon Shapiro-Lacks for the Jewish Disability Empowerment Center (2018)
  
• US House of Representatives Resolution Condemning Assisted Suicide (2017)
  
• Assisted Suicide Laws Will Pressure Poor, Elderly, Depressed To Die (2019)
  
• Obama Admin Won't Hold Doctors Accountable for Breaking Assisted Suicide Law, Here's Why (2016)
  
• Pushing for Courts to Impose Assisted Suicide (2015)
  
• Connecticut's Division of Criminal Justice Testimony on Problems With Falsification of Death Certificates (2015)
  
• Group Launches Effort to Repeal Physician-Assisted Death Law (2013)
  
• Vermont Group Working to Repeal Assisted Suicide Act (2013)
  
• Gov. Peter Shumlin Signed Vermont's Doctor-Prescribed Suicide Bill (2013)
  
• Washington Assisted Suicide: What Do We Advise Our Clients? (2009)
  
• Analysis Of Washington Assisted Suicide Initiative (2008)
  
• Euthanasia & Assisted-Suicide Measures Proposed (2007)
  
• US Senate: Bill Introduced to Fight Assisted Suicide (2006)
  
• Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution Looks into Assisted-Suicide (2006)
  
• What the Oregon v. Ashcroft Lawsuit is About (October, 2002)
  
• Assistant Attorney General Statement on District Court Assisted Suicide Ruling (April, 2002)
  
• US Department of Justice: "Dispensing of Controlled Substances To Assist Suicide" (November, 2001)
  
• House Approves Pain Relief Promotion Act (October, 2000)
  
• Attorney General Reno Allows Assisted Suicide Law to Proceed (September, 1999)
  
• Anti-Assisted Suicide Bill Introduced (July, 1998)
  
• Congress to Vote (July, 1998)
  
• Lethal Drugs for Physician-Assisted Suicide (July, 1998)
  

"All medical records and documents connected to the provision of assisted suicide are protected from legal discovery or subpoena, ensuring that no investigation is ever likely to take place." ... Dr. Joseph E. Marine.

"He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir" . . . Benjamin Franklin in the 1733 edition of Poor Richard's Almanack

• Euthanasia "Impossible To Police" For Law-breaking (2023)
  
• Assisted Suicide Laws Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act - Newsweek Opinion (2023)
  
• Court Case Launched To Declare Assisted Suicide Unlawful And Unconstitutional In The US (2023)
  
• Proposed Regulation For Prescribing Controlled Substances Via Telemedicine (2023)
  
• Portugal's Parliament Passes Its Fourth Euthanasia Bill. Is This Bill Also Unconstitutional?v (2023)
  
• Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Decides That There Is No Right To Assisted Suicide (2022)
  
• Full Text of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Decison (2022)
  
• California Judge Dismisses Case To Permit Euthanasia Within Assisted Suicide Law (2022)
  
• Netherlands Death Group Launches Court Case To Allow Anyone To Participate In Suicide (2022)
  
• Calls to make euthanasia doctors criminally liable (2022)
  
• Donna's Law (2022)
  
• Suicide: Oregon Becomes America’s Switzerland (2022)
  
• Massachusetts Supreme Court To Hear Assisted Suicide Case (2021)
  
• Bioethicist Asks, "Does Birth Matter?" Answers, "No" (2022)
  
• Why Do Death Certificates List An Assisted Death As A Natural Death And Capital Punishment As Homicide? (2021)
  
• California Court Case Would Extend Assisted Suicide Law To Euthanasia (2021)
  
• Constitutional Challenge Brief Filed in New Jersey Euthanasia Appeal (2021)
  
• Case study: Organ Donor Homicide (2021)
  
• Not Dead Yet Organization’s Friend-of-the-Court Briefs - 1996 through 2017
  
• Assisters Can Have Their Own Agenda
  
• Massachusetts Court Rules There Is No Right To Assisted Suicide (2020)
  
• Massachusetts Court Explains Why Assisted Suicide Should Be Prohibited (2020)
  
• Judicially Imposed Expansion of Euthanasia (2019)
  
• New Jersey Law Journal Endorses Canadian-style Euthanasia Law, Saying Assisted Suicide Is Not Enough (2018)
  
• UK Court Refuses to Preempt Parliament's Role on Assisted Suicide (2018)
  
• Judge Rules California's Assisted Suicide Law Unconstitutional (2018)
  
• UK Courts Consider Food & Fluids (2017)
  
• No State Constitutional Right to Assisted Suicide, New York High Court Rules (2017)
  
• US House of Representatives Members Introduce Bipartisan Resolution on the Dangers of Legalizing Assisted Suicide (2017)
  
• Full Text of H. CON. RES. 80 (Assisted Suicide Resolution) (2017)
  
• Insurance Companies Take Advantage Of Patients Seen As Too Expensive To Keep Alive (2017)
  
• Euthanasia Activists Try to Stop Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch Because He Opposes Assisted Suicide (2017)
  
• European Court of Human Rights Judge: There is No Right to Assisted Suicide (2017)
  
• To Fight Assisted Suicide In The Courts, Stop Arguing Federalism (2016)
  
• Massachusetts Lawsuit Seeks To Euthanize Definition Of Assisted Suicide (2016)
  
• Lawsuit Filed to Stop California's Assisted Suicide Law (2016)
  
• Belgium Euthanasia Law - Crushing the Resistance one Clause At a Time (2016)
  
• From 2005: Oregon Has "No authority to investigate Death with Dignity case"
  
• "Physician Assisted Suicide: Objections in Principle and in Prudence" (A 2014 Lecture by Professor of Law O. Carter Snead)
  
• Legal Key Issues - Euthanasia
  
• Dangers of Assisted Suicide Highlighted As Minnesota Judge Hears Closing Arguments (2014)
  
• An Article About Guardianship, Elder Abuse, and Assisted Suicide by Attorney Margaret K. Dore (2014)
  
• Last Rights: You Can Have the "Right to Die" Once You Surrender All the Others (2012)
  
• VT Attorney: Assisted Suicide Legislation is Ripe for Abuse (2012)
  
• The Risks of Mistake, Coercion and Abuse Are Too Great to Warrant Legal Immunity for Doctors Who Help End Lives (2012)
  
• Landmark Case Affecting Thousands With Locked-in Syndrome (2011)
  
• Man Gets Prison for NY Self-Help Speaker's Death (2011)
  
• US Nurse Found Guilty in Web Suicide Case (2011)
  
• Autopsy Cutbacks Reveal "Gray Homicides" (2011)
  
• Physican-Assisted Suicide Litigation, Legislation, and Developments from 1997 through 2009
  
• Euthanasia of Children (2007)
  
• A Family Affair
  
• Chain of "Suicide Clinics" Sought (2006)
  
• British Ethicist Calls for Legalizing Nonconsensual Euthanasia (2006)
  
• Euthanasia Laws Throughout World (November, 2005)
  
• Disability Group Will Rally Before Assisted Suicide Supreme Court Case (October, 2005)
  
• Assisted Suicide Laws By State (July, 1998)
  
• Assisted Suicide Laws By State (c. 1990's)
  
• Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care (April, 2005)
  
• Terri Schiavo: Judicial Murder (March, 2005)
  
• Attorney General: Controlled Substances Cannot Be Used For Assisted Suicide (November, 2001)
  
• Text of the International Task Force Amicus Brief in Oregon v. Ashcroft (1997)
  
• Civil Remedies to Prevent Suicide
  
• What's Wrong with Making Assisted Suicide Legal?
  
• Euthanasia: A Case of Individual Liberty?
  
• Targeting the Vulnerable by P.J. King, RN
  
• If Mercy Killing Becomes Legal
  

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  "Death solves all problems...no man, no problem." ... Joseph Stalin

  "We protest his hiring because Dr. Singer denies the intrinsic moral worth of an entire class of human beings - newborn children - and promotes policies that would deprive many infants with disabilities of their basic human right to legal protection against homicide." ... Princeton University student petition protesting Peter Singer's hiring.

  "I can understand at the individual level that in some cases you wish it was all over with, but the problem is as a society you have to choose what's going to be your norm." ... "We have this idea that what happens to me is nobody's business. The problem with euthanasia is it requires another person to do it, and it requires a complicit society to authorize it." ... Margaret Somerville, founding director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law

  "Certainly more people are killed against their will by euthanasia than are unjustly executed. And yet where are the voices raised against the former injustice?" ... Sam Schulman.

  "Policies or practices that are implicitly premised on belief in a right to suicide or assisted suicide or euthanasia should be roundly rejected." ... Princeton professor Robert George.

  "Physician-assisted suicide undermines the core values of our health care system- like protecting our nation’s most vulnerable citizens, including the elderly, people with disabilities, and people experiencing psychiatric diagnoses. Americans deserve better. I believe patients facing the end of their lives deserve to have a health care system that ensures access to the best and most comprehensive medical care possible, tailored to their needs. Physician-assisted suicide not only devalues health care, but it also devalues the lives of all human beings" . . . Congressman Brad Wenstrup, D.P.M. (R-OH).

  "Patients with terminal illnesses and individuals with disabilities deserve access to hope. There are numerous concerns with assisted suicide laws and proposals, which may inadvertently affect persons with disabilities. This resolution is a step towards protecting vulnerable patients across the nation" . . . Congressman Lou Correa (D-CA).