Oregon Health Workers Urged to Take Suicide Prevention Training – But State Law Endorses Suicides of Medically Vulnerable

Efforts to lower the state’s suicide rate contrast sharply with Oregon’s ‘Death With Dignity’ law that authorizes the assisted suicides of elderly and medically vulnerable people.

RFK Jr. Announces HHS Review of Organ Procurement After ‘Horrifying’ Revelations that Some Patients Were Still Alive

While organ donation can be a life-saving gift, malpractice and unethical practices jeopardize the dignity and right to life of donors.

New York’s Radical Assisted Suicide Bill Would Jeopardize Lives Nationwide. There’s Still Time to Speak Out.

New York’s Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul has not yet signed the measure, which has drawn nationwide attention and concern for its lack of even basic regulations.

New York’s Radical Assisted Suicide Bill Heads to Governor’s Desk

The measure is similar in many ways to Oregon’s ‘Death With Dignity Act,’ but goes even further by allowing doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to vulnerable New Yorkers with no mandated waiting period.

American Medical Association Reaffirms Opposition to Assisted Suicide

‘[T]he AMA’s position on physician assisted suicide is … that the profession of medicine should not support the legalization or practice of physician assisted suicide or see it as part of a physician’s role.’