I. INTRODUCTION
I am a lawyer and president of Choice is an Illusion, a nonprofit corporation opposed to assisted suicide and euthanasia.[1] The Act, HB 90, seeks to legalize medical “aid in dying,” a traditional euphemism for active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.[2]
HB 90 is based on similar statutes in Oregon and Washington State. If enacted, it will apply to people with years or decades to live. It will create new paths of abuse and exploitation.[3]
Individuals with money, meaning the middle class and above, will be especially at risk. I urge you to vote “No” on HB 90.
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Friday, April 7, 2017
Assisted suicide bill - it deserved to die
John Kelly |
By John Kelly | Posted: Monday, March 20, 2017 7:00 pm
Thanks to the state Senate’s rejection of the assisted suicide bill, Senate Bill 252, residents of New Mexico can breathe easier. As Sen. Craig Brandt said during last week’s debate, “This bill is dangerous. Doctors make mistakes every day.”
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Assisted suicide wrong Rx for NM
William Toffler, MD |
I am a professor emeritus of family medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Ore. I have lived and practiced medicine in Oregon for almost 37 years.
There has been a profound shift in attitude in my state since the voters of Oregon narrowly embraced assisted suicide 20 years ago. This shift has been detrimental to our patients, degraded the quality of medical care and compromised the integrity of my profession.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
New Mexico Supreme Court States Assisted Suicide Is Not A Civil Right, Euthanasia Inevitable
Annette Hanson, MD |
New Mexico [has become] the latest state to throw out a challenge to a law banning physician assisted suicide. In Morris v. Brandenburg, proponents of the right-to-die movement claimed that medical aid-in-dying was a fundamental right, meaning that any law which restricted the right should be presumed to be invalid unless the state had a compelling reason for the restriction. In a unanimous decision, the New Mexico Supreme Court held that there was no such right under that state's constitution, and that even if the right had existed the state had several compelling reasons to restrict it
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