Lord Falconer has just announced that he is about to introduce a new bill into the House of Lords to legalise assisted suicide along the lines of the Oregon model – assisted suicide for mentally competent adults who have less than six months to live. Members of the House […]
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Warning to UK – Oregon Health Plan steers patients towards suicide
Members of the pro-euthanasia movement frequently point to the US state of Oregon, which legalised assisted suicide in 1997, as a model which Britain should follow. Lord Falconer and Margo Macdonald MSP are two British politicians who have frequently sung the praises of Oregon which […]
Huge increase in assisted suicide cases sounds strong warning to Britain
There has been a massive increase in cases of assisted suicide in both Oregon and Switzerland over recent years according to the latest figures. The Oregon ‘Death with Dignity Act’ allows terminally-ill Oregonians ‘to end their lives through the voluntary self-administration of lethal medications, expressly […]
Shroud of secrecy surrounds assisted suicide in Oregon
I was doing an interview on BBC Radio Wales this am on the Ottaway debate when a spokesman for Dignity in Dying (formerly the Voluntary Euthanasia Society) was again singing the praises of the law allowing assisted suicide in the US state of Oregon. The […]