OREGON ARTICLES
"I have seen firsthand how the law has changed the relationship between doctors and patients, some of whom now fear that they are being steered toward assisted suicide."
... Dr. William L. Toffler, professor of family medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.
- Suicide Tourism Comes to Oregon
(2023)
- Assisted Suicide Activist Promotes Oregon For Suicide Tourism
(2022)
- Oregon 2021: Anorexia, Hernias & Feeling A Burden
(2022)
- Suicide: Oregon Becomes America’s Switzerland
(2022)
- Oregon Ends Residency Rule for Medically Assisted Suicide
(2022)
- Oregon’s Official Report for 2021
(2022)
- Oregon 2021 Assisted Suicide Report. Ingestion Status Unknown With 106 Lethal Prescriptions
(2022)
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Oregon 2021: Anorexia, Hernias & Feeling A Burden
(2022)
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Assisted Suicide Lobby Challenges Oregon Assisted Suicide Residency Requirement In Court (2021)
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Terminally Ill Dying Out of Hopelessness and Abandonment (2021)
- Oregon's Suicide Crisis Worsens (2020)
- Oregon Assisted Suicide Deaths Increase Again In 2019 (2020)
- Oregon Doctor's Depressed Patient Died By Assisted Suicide (2020)
- There Is No Effective Oversight Of Assisted Suicide Laws (2020)
- Dark Anniversary: The State of Assisted Suicide 25 Years after Oregon Measure 16
(2019)
- Oregon Removes 15 Day Waiting Period For Assisted Suicide (2019)
- Oregon Wants People to Kill Themselves ASAP, Bill Removes Waiting Period for Assisted Suicide (2019)
- Oregon Approves Bill To Expand Assisted Suicide Law (2019)v
- Senate Bill 579 Will Put Vulnerable Oregonians At Risk (2019)
- Oregon Bill HB 2217 Extends Assisted Suicide to Allow Euthanasia (2019)v
- Oregon Assisted Suicide. The Myth Of "Oversight" And "Control" (2019)v
- Exposing Abuse Of The Oregon Assisted Suicide Law. Two Doctors Accused Of Alleged Abuse Of The Oregon Assisted Suicide Law (2019)v
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Oregon Attempts to Expand Assisted-Suicide License (2019)v
- Attempt to Expand Oregon Assisted-Suicide License (2019)
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Oregon Will Debate Bills To Expand The Definition Of Terminal And Allow Physicians To Wave The Waiting Period
(2019)
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Oregon Assisted Suicide Lobby Wants To Expand The Assisted Suicide Law
(2019)
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Oregon Attempts to Expand Assisted-Suicide License
(2019)
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Oregon Doctor Speaks Out About His Depressed Patient Who Died By Assisted Suicide
(2019)
- Oregon: Plan To Eliminate Opioid Prescriptions For Chronic Pain Medicaid Patients Increase The Requests For Assisted Suicide? (2018-2019)
- Video: Oregon Woman Who Asked For Assisted Suicide Is Alive Because Her Doctor Helped Her Find Something To Live For
(2018)
- Oregon Dives Deeper Into Assisted Suicide With New Drug Policy
(2018)
- Legal Assisted Suicide Encourages Other Suicide
(2018)
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Opinion: "Open Season" on the Poor and Medicaid Population in Oregon (2018)
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Oregon Health Authority. There Is No Effective Oversight Of The Oregon Assisted Suicide Law (2018)
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2017 Oregon Assisted Suicide Report. The Number Of Deaths Increase Again (2018)
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Oregon House Bill 4135 Deceptively Dehydrates Incompetent People To Death (2018)
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Oregon Bill Passes, Allows Mentally Ill Patients to be Starved (2018)
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Mentally Ill Patients Would be Starved to Death and Denied Food and Water Under New Oregon Bill (2018)
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Hidden Problems With The Oregon Assisted Suicide Law Uncovered (2018)
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Oregon Senate Passes Bill to Allow Starving Mentally Ill Patients to Death (2017)
- Oregon's Euthanasia Bill Is Intentionally Ambiguous (2017)
- "If Dr. Stevens had believed in assisted suicide, I would be dead" (2017)
- Oregon Bill Would Extend Assisted Suicide To Euthanasia Of Incompetent People (2017)
- Oregon State Assisted Suicide Reports Substantiate Critics' Concerns (2016)
- Assisted Suicide Takes Away Dignity (2016)
- Oregon Assisted Suicides Jump (2016)
- Oregon Assisted Suicide Deaths Rose Another 26% in 2015 (2016)
- Official 2015 Report on Oregon Assisted Suicide (2016)
- Oregon Doctor Urges Maine To Fight Legal Assisted-Suicide (2015)
- Study Finds More People Kill Themselves in Suicides When Assisted Suicide is Legalized (2015)
- Video: Pulling Back the Curtain on Assisted Suicide (2015)
- Number of Assisted Suicide Deaths and Prescriptions in Oregon From 1998 through 2014 (Chart on Page One)
- Some Oregon and Washington State Assisted Suicide Abuses and Complications
(2015)
- Assisted Suicides in Oregon Jump 44 Percent as Abuses Continue (2015)
- The Facts From An Internal Medicine Doctor, Practicing In Oregon
- "Doctor giving my husband a sales pitch for assisted suicide"
- "My concerns were ignored, and approximately two weeks later my patient was dead from an overdose prescribed by this doctor."
- Affidavit of Kenneth R. Stevens, Jr. MD on His Experiences with the Oregon Assisted Suicide Law (2012)
- Oregon's New Cost-Cutting Strategy Is To Deny Care To Cancer Patients (2013)
- Oregon Assisted Suicide Deaths Hit Record High in 2012 (2013)
- Assisted Suicide in Washington, Oregon Leads to Elder Abuse (2013)
- Case Against Assisted Suicide - Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts (2012)
- Chart: Oregon 2011 Report on Doctor-Prescribed Suicider (2012)
- Oregon Situation at End of the Year (2011)
- Text of 13th official report (2010) Oregon's Death with Dignity Act (2011)
- 13th official report: Oregon's Death with Dignity Act (2011)
- Compassion and Choices Compiles Oregon Assisted Suicide "Official" Statistics! (2010)
- Oregon Hospices Not Participating in Assisted Suicide (2010)
- Oregon Medical Board Suspends Doctor Who Wants to Open Assisted-Suicide Facility (2010)
- Twelveth Official Report on Assisted Suicide in Oregon (2010)
- Oregon Health Plan Denies Chemo-Therapy But Approves Assisted Suicide (2009)
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The Chilling Truth About the City Where They Pay People to Die (2009)
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Oregon Assisted Suicide at Record High (2009)
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Cancer Treatment Not Approved; Physician Aid in Dying Ok (2008)
- "Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon: A Medical Perspective" (2008)
- Oregon Assisted Suicides Without Symptoms
(2008)
- History of Assisted Suicide In Oregon
- Nurses Investigated In Oregon Assisted Suicide Case (2007)
- Annual Oregon Assisted Suicide Report Shorter with More Ambiguous Language (2007)
- Ninth Official Report on Assisted Suicide in Oregon (2007)
- When Killing Yourself Isn't Suicide (2007)
- California Legislators Eye Oregon As They Consider Similar Law (2007)
- State Sidesteps 'Suicide' in Report (2006)
- Doctors Discuss Oregon's Law (2006)
- US Supreme Court Upholds Oregon Physician Assisted Suicide Law (2006)
- Doctor Says Assisted Suicide Decreasing Good Medical Practice (November, 2005)
- Oregon Issues Seventh Annual Report on Legal Physician Assisted Suicide (March, 2005)
- U.S. Supreme Court Decides to Review Oregon's Assisted-Suicide Law (February, 2005)
- Doctors in Oregon Concerned About Newborn Euthanasia in the Netherlands (December, 2004)
- Bush Administration Appeals Decision on Oregon Assisted Suicide Law (November, 2004)
- Oregon Assisted Suicide Headed for Supreme Court (August, 2004)
- Study Says Pain Control Isn't Better (July, 2004)
- Palliative Care for Elderly, Disabled, Worse Since Assisted Suicide Legalized (July, 2004)
- U.S. Appeals Court Blocks Attorney General (May, 2004)
- Oregon: Assisted Suicide Endangers Patients with History of Pre-existing Mental Illness (2004)
- 6th Annual Report on Oregon's "Death with Dignity Act" (2004)
- Number of Prescriptions of Lethal Doses of Medication under Oregon's "Death with Dignity Act" (1998-2003) - Chart
- Number of Deaths under Oregon's Physician Assisted Suicide Act (1998-2002)- Charts
- Why People Killed Themselves in 2002 under Oregon's Physician Assisted Suicide Act - Charts
- Attorney General: Controlled Substances Cannot Be Used For Assisted Suicide (November, 2001)
- Oregon People Who Died By Assisted Suicide in 2000 - Charts
- State Assisted Suicide Report (2000)
- How-To Suicide Video Shown in Oregon (February, 2000)
- Ralph Nader Condemns Assisted Suicide Law (August, 2000)
- Kate Cheney's Oregon Death Illustrates Dangers (1999)
- New Doctors Group Criticizes Oregon Assisted Suicide Law (March, 1999)
- Oregon Assisted Suicide Deaths - 1998
- Oregon Taxpayers To Cover Assisted Suicide (February, 1998)
- Reaction to Oregon Assisted Suicide Vote of 1997
- Oregon "Death with Dignity Act" (2004)
"The word "compassion" comes from the Latin root meaning "to suffer with."
Assisted suicide kills a human being, but there is another victim. Our
humanity -- the capacity to suffer with the most vulnerable members of our
society -- dies as well."
... Dr. Jose A. Bufill, medical oncologist (USA Today; June 4, 2002)
"It is not surprising that the numbers of assisted suicides have doubled. Nor should it be surprising that they may again double and redouble over the years. Assisted suicide is now legally acceptable there, and people are becoming more aware of its availability. The social stigma dissolves and, most important, it is a cheaper and easier alternative than caring for terminally ill and disabled persons. Oregon has introduced a bad apple in the health care barrel."
... Tom Marzen, attorney for the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependant and Disabled, commenting on the Oregon'a assisted suicide law's 2002 figures. (March, 2003)
"It would be like someone driving down a highway and the state decided that they would no longer have any law enforcement officers near the highway to see if people are driving within the speed limit. But if instead they said, 'When you reach your destination, call us and tell us whether you broke the law.' It wouldn't make any sense, and yet that's exactly how the reports are coming out of Oregon. This is very important for people to realize, not only in the United States, but also across the world because Oregon is being used as the model for assisted suicide working well" ... Rita L. Marker, JD, executive director of The International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (2007).
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