1. Surrogacy Bill Becomes Law in Louisiana Louisiana Governor Edwards has signed into law a bill that makes surrogacy contracts enforceable in his state. Former Louisiana Governor Jindal vetoed similar legislation in 2013 and...
Read More1. Surrogacy Bill in Louisiana Here we go again. After two previous attempts—thankfully vetoed by then Governor Bobby Jindal—another surrogacy bill has been introduced in the state of Louisiana. This new bill has passed the...
Read MoreThe death of Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old terminally ill woman who took her own life on November 1st utilizing Oregon’s “Death with Dignity” law, is not just a personal tragedy, but also one for the institution of medicine...
Read MoreIt appears that Oregon has run dry on death drugs. You see death penalty opponents have made the supply of a prime death-causing drug used in assisted suicide scarce. Of course, the media misses the irony. From the Willamette...
Read MoreAs I have discussed previously, the first state to explicitly ration Medicaid — an integral feature of all single payer systems — tightens the screws against terminal cancer patients. Now, the issues is gaining wider...
Read MoreSuicide is in the air. Our culture — particularly exemplified by the media — is becoming increasingly pro suicide. Perhaps better stated, many are now pro some suicides. Indeed, if a suicidal person is sick,...
Read MoreThe Oregon death bureaucrats, the media, and the ideologues work together to put a false happy face on assisted suicide in Oregon. No flaws, we are told. No abuses. Nothing to see but compasssssion. But occasionally reality...
Read MoreThere is an aspect to the disabled twins joint euthanasia story out of Belgium, about which I posted yesterday, that I thought needed a separate comment. The first doctor the men went to asking to be killed said no. So, they...
Read MoreThe New England Journal of Medicine has long advocated assisted suicide in its pages. It now has a piece supposedly rebutting opponents of legalizing assisted suicide in Oregon. For example, it says that assisted suicide was not...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC One of the great propaganda coups of the assisted suicide movement was making people believe that the Oregon annual reports about assisted suicide were meaningful or...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC So, it’s okay for a doctor to help someone kill themselves, but not others? The irony escapes Oregon as the legislature is on track to outlaw suicide kits. From the...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC As promised, I checked into the testimony given in Scotland that claimed C & C created Oregon’s annual statistics. The state has responded and denied it is true....
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