tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29479581727866964772024-03-12T11:37:47.816-04:00VirginiaA non-profit corporation opposed to assisted suicide, euthanasia and other forms of imposed death, worldwideUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947958172786696477.post-45150474246521226642024-03-05T20:22:00.008-05:002024-03-05T22:15:06.524-05:00 Virginia Assisted Suicide Bill Failed to Move, Will Carry Over to 2025, Other Bills Dead<p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dear Advocates,</span></span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-510237648420190032" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 470px;"><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img align="center" alt="" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NaIkifbYdq8r9lsaY8_B6W5kkQxEmvVepTbkGRY9LHfyAnoN8g0DuA2dHIjQ5RXdhLn5YmtTdSWQO6fR8OtibFxgZFaH5RA4-jHwuAwNJWwWhBM73WyPCBb02OOvI-79L_Jx5TKXXZdwxmDCLn32c6EatlYl_0R9C0=s0-d-e1-ft#https://mcusercontent.com/e345d20fd197461a36873e54d/images/231540c1-d554-eb2d-1ea1-a7a34fd6f34c.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding: 5px 5px 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="236.88" /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">More good news from the east coast! Virginia bill SB 280, which had passed in the Senate, failed to move forward in the House – despite last ditch efforts – and will carry over to 2025. Many thanks to the Virginia coalition which did outstanding work to prevent passage.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the meantime, the following bills are now declared dead for 2024 and will NOT carry over to the new year. <span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a name="more"></a></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Arizona</b>: SB 1530, HB2878. No activity took place.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Indiana</b>: HB 1011</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Iowa</b>: HF533. Carried over from 2023. HF 612 and SF 2101 introduced in 2024. No activity took place on any of the bills.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Maryland</b>: HB 403, SB 443. Public hearings held, bills tabled due to lack of votes in committee.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Missouri</b>: HB 1903. No activity took place.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Wisconsin</b>: SB 739, AB 781. No activity took place.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Patients Rights Action Fund</span></p><p><a href="mailto:info@patientsrightsaction.org" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">info@patientsrightsaction.org</span></a></p><p>Patients Rights Action Fund: US Bills Fail to Advance</p><div><br /></div></div>Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947958172786696477.post-36408238786780805352023-01-20T18:49:00.069-05:002024-01-09T16:37:29.648-05:00Euthanasia Bill Fails<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ1FDsyLAZf3Re0UAGMHO3_bOwtaOS4JDFRxTfwC1iG5sQWbgq2V0UnzaiDBkM0ne2a5-M6E2okM-Q5n4SJCwcGlBmEfOYFM1f2NB5Og7fCNmA0quSufpl1NdOH0TA2dl3XOqegwr79F3CNC-L8CoxpV3gt2_yjDQz3lk1AWk0vWLWL8xe_t__2UGql9Eg/s194/johnedwards.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="149" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ1FDsyLAZf3Re0UAGMHO3_bOwtaOS4JDFRxTfwC1iG5sQWbgq2V0UnzaiDBkM0ne2a5-M6E2okM-Q5n4SJCwcGlBmEfOYFM1f2NB5Og7fCNmA0quSufpl1NdOH0TA2dl3XOqegwr79F3CNC-L8CoxpV3gt2_yjDQz3lk1AWk0vWLWL8xe_t__2UGql9Eg/w116-h151/johnedwards.jpg" width="116" /></a></div>Senator John Edwards, D-Roanake, broke with party lines in a Democrat-controlled
panel by voting against Senate Bill 390. <div><br /></div><div>Per his vote, the bill was defeated in a Senate
subcommittee with a 5-4 vote.</div>Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947958172786696477.post-10824082583434449492020-02-16T19:35:00.001-05:002023-12-23T22:41:40.048-05:00Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia Bill Continued Forward to Next Session<div style="text-align: right;">
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On January 16, 2020, <a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1649" target="_blank">HB 1649</a> was introduced in the Virginia Legislature and referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice.<br />
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On February 7, 2020, on a voice vote it was continued forward to the next session in 2021. This was at the request of the bill's sponsor, essentially kicking the can down the road.<br />
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This is good news.Admin CIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04645356679534667319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947958172786696477.post-14619461494328944982018-12-09T19:27:00.000-05:002019-04-05T16:45:21.358-04:00Patient-Directed Suicide Has Morphed into Family-Determined Suicide<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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To view original article, <a href="https://www.fredericksburg.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/letter-physicians-are-healers-not-life-takers/article_03067db8-97e7-596b-81f8-8d99211f535a.html" target="_blank">click here</a>.<br />
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Recently the effort to legalize physician-assisted suicide has ramped up in Virginia. For 2,500 years, medicine has claimed the role of healer, but this dangerous public policy would change that by requiring a doctor’s participation in a patient’s demise .<br />
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Patients should never be conflicted about which role their physician plays.<br />
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In places where it is legal, patient-directed suicide has morphed into family-determined suicide, and then into doctor-directed suicide. The “safeguard” of a six-month-or-less prognosis has morphed into just no longer wanting to live. And the right to die seems to have become an obligation for some.<br />
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In Lynchburg where I live, we have a sad history of eugenics. Local physicians knew what was happening but never spoke out, so non-voluntary sterilizations were carried out here for years. Our state just recently voted to pay the victims reparations.<br />
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That was a case of physicians abdicating their role of healer, but physician- assisted suicide is not much different. It makes possible modern-day eugenics for the mentally ill, elderly or disabled.<br />
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Despite recent and vigorous efforts to change the American Medical Association’s Code of Ethics forbidding PAS, the AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs wisely recommends maintaining a stance of opposition towards this dangerous practice. And the citizens of our commonwealth, too, should demand that physicians stay out of the business of death.<br />
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Physicians are healers, not life takers.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The commission’s staff developed several options, including a few related to adding a new end-of-life decision-making tool to Virginia’s code, called the “Physicians Orders for Scope of Treatment,” or POST, form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“The resiliency of the human condition is truly an amazing thing,” he said. “Each one of us has certainly, many, many times in our professional careers been faced with somebody who had no chance, they’re going to die in three months, and yet in fact it just wasn’t their time yet.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Another physician on the commission, Del. Christopher Stolle, R-Virginia Beach, criticized the POST form options after Del. David Bulova, D-Fairfax, and Sen. George Barker, D-Fairfax, proposed adding them to Virginia’s code.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She was disappointed with the committee’s vote, but said she will still try to convince her opponents that the concept is inherently about helping people avoid suffering at the end of life in hopes of revisiting the topic in later sessions.</span></div>
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</a>MONTICELLO - Andrew Moore broke down in tears Thursday in Sullivan County Court as he pleaded guilty to fatally strangling his mother as part of an assisted suicide pact.<br /><br />
Moore will face a maximum sentence of five to 15 years behind bars in the plea bargain agreement. In return, he pleaded guilty to a second-degree manslaughter charge for assisting his mother, Margaret "Peggy" Regalia of Bloomingburg, in committing suicide in January.<br /><br />
Judge Frank LaBuda posed one last question before Moore was taken away in handcuffs.<br /><br />"So, you strangled the last breath out of your mother with your hands?"<br /><br />"Yes," Moore said as he began to cry.<br /><br />
Regalia was found dead in a house on Nashopa Road in Bloomingburg after her daughter Jennifer and Mike Panet, Jennifer's husband, asked police to check the house when the ShopRite in Montgomery, where Regalia worked, notified them she had missed two days of work.<br /><br />
District Attorney James Farrell said Moore and his mother had a "suicide agreement," to which Moore had confessed when he was initially arrested. Farrell said the investigation confirmed that.<br /><br />
Farrell said Moore, 29 when he strangled his mother, was "very troubled," but his remorse did not appear to be fake.<br /><br />"The fact he has remorse is a good thing," Farrell said. "But he still has to held accountable for his actions and for taking her life. And he'll have to live with what he did for the rest of his days."<br /><br />
Moore is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 18.<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4;">By <a href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/personalia/GAnderson" rel="author" style="color: #3d85c6; text-decoration: none;">GLENDA ANDERSON</a>, </span><span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4;">THE PRESS DEMOCRAT, </span><span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 1.4;">Published: Wednesday, August 8, 2012 at 7:31 p.m; </span><span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 1.4;">Last Modified: Thursday, August 9, 2012 at 7:36 a.m.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A former Navy enlisted sailor who graduated from Willits High School has been sentenced to five years in prison for helping a senior non-commissioned officer commit suicide in Virginia, according to the Virginian-Pilot newspaper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paul Stephen Bricker, 27, had pleaded guilty April 4 to voluntary manslaughter in the July 2009 death of Gerard Curran in Virginia Beach. Bricker, a petty officer second class at the time, testified that Curran said he was ill and asked him to help him commit suicide and make it appear to be a homicide so his family would receive Navy death benefits, the newspaper reported.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Curran, 45, who was having marital and alcohol-related problems, previously had attempted to stab himself in the chest, the Virginian-Pilot reported.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the day of his death, he choked himself with a yellow physical therapy band. When he passed out, Bricker stabbed him in the chest.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bricker was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison, but the judge suspended five, according to the Virginian-Pilot.</span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947958172786696477.post-71618730475835755132011-12-26T21:47:00.000-05:002011-12-26T21:47:48.881-05:00The Cavlier Daily: "Law, not choice"<a eudora="autourl" href="http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2011/10/14/law-not-choice/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2011/10/14/law-not-choice/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By </span><a href="http://www.cavalierdaily.com/?s=%22Margaret Dore%22"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Margaret Dore</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> on October 14, 2011<br />
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I am an attorney in Washington state, where assisted suicide is legal. I am also president of Choice is an Illusion, a nonprofit corporation opposed to assisted suicide. Contrary to Alex Yahanda’s article, “</span><a href="http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2011/10/13/the-grateful-dead/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The grateful dead</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">” (Oct. 13), assisted suicide is only legal in two states: Oregon and Washington. He also leaves off its multiple problems such as elder abuse.<br />
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Last March, I did a legal analysis of two assisted suicide bills that were pending in the Vermont legislature. I had previously analyzed two similar bills introduced in 2009. None of these bills assured patient choice.<br />
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To view my most recent analysis, go to </span><a eudora="autourl" href="http://www.choiceillusionvermont.org/p/2011-bills.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.choiceillusionvermont.org/p/2011-bills.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. To view my prior analysis, see “Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Recipe for Elder Abuse and the Illusion of Personal Choice,” in the Winter 2011 edition of the Vermont Bar Journal, which is available at </span><a eudora="autourl" href="http://www.vtbar.org/Images/Journal/journalarticles/winter2011/PhysicianAssistedSuicide.pdf"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.vtbar.org/Images/Journal/journalarticles/winter2011/PhysicianAssistedSuicide.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> .<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Margaret Dore<br />
President, Choice is an Illusion </i></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com