An Important Message for Pro-Life Voters

2022 is shaping up to be the best opportunity in a generation to elect a pro-life Governor in Oregon. This is a bold statement, and there are four good reasons we can make this claim. There is no incumbent. All of the leading Republican candidates are pro-life. A well-funded, non-affiliated candidate will compete for pro-choice […]

Residency Requirement for Physician-Assisted Suicide Quietly Ended

Salem, OR—On March 28, 2022, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum entered into a settlement agreement that guaranteed the non-enforcement of the residency requirement in Oregon’s “Death with Dignity Act.” This statute limited physician-assisted suicide access to residents of Oregon. “We already have a problem with dangerously short physician-patient relationships and the push to eliminate any […]

2022 Legislative Wrapup: Pro-Life Bills

In the 2022 Oregon Legislative Session, we spent most of our time on three bills. Two of those were the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act (SB 1553) and the abortion pill reversal informed consent bill (HB 4042). The Born-Alive Infants Protection Act would have required medical practitioners to provide life-saving care to infants who are born […]

2022 Legislative Wrapup: HB 4034

In the 2022 Oregon Legislative Session, we spent most of our time on three bills. One of those was HB 4034, an omnibus bill that included the expansion of abortion in Oregon. This bill was a buffet of barely linked provisions that cannot be shortly summarized. Maybe that’s why it’s just been called “A bill […]

“Death with Dignity” Report Reveals Continued Neglect of Mental Illness

Salem, OR—Oregon recently released its 24th annual report on assisted suicide in the state. In 2021, 383 people received lethal prescriptions. Of that group, 218 people died from ingesting the lethal medication. That includes 20 patients who used prescriptions for assisted suicide acquired in previous years (2020 report). Since the law was passed in 1997, doctors have […]