Swiss voters overwhelmingly reject proposed assisted suicide ban
About 85% of voters in Zurich rejected a proposal to end legalized assisted suicide while about 78% rejected a proposal to stop the practice of suicide tourism.
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Articles tagged Assisted Suicide
70% of disabled fear pressure to die if assisted suicide legalized: UK poll
Fifty-six percent of respondents believed any relaxation of the law would be “detrimental to the way that disabled people are viewed by society as a whole.”
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Euthanasia group to launch assisted suicide info hotline
Sarah Wootton, chief executive of Compassion in Dying, denied that the hotline would give out detailed information on how to commit suicide.
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NewsBytes for May 6 – Life Issues
Baby Joseph’s Father Wants Answers, Webcam Abortions, Development & Peace Abortion Scandal, British street vigils against abortion, Notre Dame , Planned Parenthood, assisted suicide, euthanasia, embryonic stem cells, China and organ donations
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Pro-life billboard banned in Australia, but euthanasia ad ok
Supporters of the billboard have pointed out that the ASB seems to have looser standards when it comes to advertisements promoting euthanasia.
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B.C. Civil Liberties Assoc. launches lawsuit to challenge assisted suicide law
Lee and Hollis Johnson took Lee’s mother, Kathleen Carter (89), to the Dignitas suicide clinic in Switzerland in January 2010.
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UK marketing assisted suicide educational videos for 14-year-olds
In the video Dr. Philip Nitschke of “Exit International” demonstrates the use of his suicide machine that dispenses lethal injections.
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Actor Patrick Stewart: assisted suicide should be a ‘right’
"A lot of it has to do with my age," said Stewart. "I was 70 last year and there is something about achieving threescore years and 10, isn't there?
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Oregon looks to ban ‘suicide kits,’ but permits doctor-assisted suicides
Oregon has legalized physician assisted suicide, but is now trying to clamp down on the selling of suicide kits by third party companies.
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UK assisted suicide campaigner commits suicide at Swiss ‘clinic’: had arthritis
Nan Maitland's suicide is likely to add further fuel to the efforts of assisted suicide campaigners in Britain who want the current law overturned.
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