SEATTLE, Aug 20 (LSN) – Yesterday the Oregon Health Division delivered its mandated report on the effects of the new law permitting assisted suicide revealing that ten patients requested and received lethal doses of drugs. Only eight of the five men and five women actually followed through with their suicides. All but one of the victims of the new law were cancer patients. According to the report the assisted suicides took place within the last three to four months. The Oregon Catholic Conference mourned the report, warning that: “Today’s news confirms the tragic path on which the practice of medicine and the doctor-patient relationship is headed in Oregon and the United States.”
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