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New Documentary Footage Chronicles Euthanasia Abuses in Oregon, Netherlands.
New footage examining the practical application of Oregon's Death with Dignity Act has just been edited for release. The official report of assisted suicide in Oregon admits the practice has become much more widespread, and even includes the caveat that it does "not include patients and physicians who act outside the law."
Brian Johnston's documentary film Death As A Salesman: What's Wrong With Assisted Suicide has been updated with documentation of the abuses. "I suppose you could call it a `director's cut,'" said Johnston, director of National Right to Life's Western Office. "I was particularly concerned that the abuses in Oregon be made known. There are so many facts about the death of vulnerable patients that the state's `official reports' tend to gloss over."
Recent revelations of widespread abuse and non-reporting in the Netherlands have also come to light. "These are things that have to be looked at and talked about," said Johnston. "Sadly this is a topic that many are uncomfortable with; they may feel intuitively that something's wrong, but they don't know how ...
- DEATH AS A SALESMAN VIDEO WORKS TO CHANGE MINDS.(pro life movement video...
- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News January 1, 2001 700+ words
...DEATH AS A SALESMAN: What's Wrong With Assisted Suicide. Based on...Dangers of Assisted Suicide The moving...DEATH AS A SALESMAN was shown...dangers of assisted suicide and reach...DEATH AS A SALESMAN. Videos...
- Oregon Assisted-Suicide Law Upheld in Federal Court.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News April 18, 2002 700+ words
...yesterday upheld Oregon's assisted-suicide law, clearing the way for...first-in-the-nation assisted-suicide law, which in the past...proponents of physician-assisted suicide say they support that goal...retired 72-year-old salesman with colon cancer that spread...
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- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News April 1, 2003 700+ words
...In 2000, the video Death As A Salesman was shown not only in churches...in the very narrow defeat of an assisted suicide initiative. If you would like...copies of the video Death As A Salesman. Videos are available directly...
- Assisted suicide and euthanasia: the cases are in the pipeline. (Civil Rights)
- Magazine article from: Trial Kamisar, Yale December 1, 1994 700+ words
...chance that any state would legalize assisted suicide or active voluntary euthanasia seemed...states probably will decriminalize assisted suicide and/or active voluntary euthanasia...first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide, allowing doctors to prescribe lethal...
- Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in the Netherlands: a report to the...
- Magazine article from: Issues in Law & Medicine December 22, 1998 700+ words
...toleration of the practice of physician-assisted suicide for physically-suffering, terminally...the Dutch Penal Code has prohibited assisted suicide and euthanasia. However, in the...courts began to tolerate physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia for terminally-ill...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 22, 2007 700+ words
...highlight the inadequacies of any assisted suicide legislation. In fact, these...again underlines the point that Assisted Suicide is as much about health-care cost as anything. "Assisted suicide proponents can spin these recent...
- Challenges Ahead Assisted Suicide THE KEY TO VICTORY MODELED.
- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News Smith, Wesley January 1, 2000 700+ words
...us, the struggle over legalizing assisted suicide is taking center stage. The stakes...not an overstatement to assert that assisted suicide is the coming cultural bellwether...act in the struggle over legalizing assisted suicide and euthanasia. The era of Kevorkian...
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- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News Bostrom, Barry A. September 14, 1999 700+ words
...the volatile issue of physician-assisted suicide, specifically the constitutional...constitutional "right" to physician-assisted suicide, whether in the federal Constitution...McIver holding. Although proponents of assisted suicide have attempted to interpret the precedents...
- What about legalized assisted suicide?
- Magazine article from: Issues in Law & Medicine Smith, Cheryl K. March 22, 1993 700+ words
...the abortion debate, proponents of assisted suicide have begun to focus their efforts...introduced legislation to legalize either assisted suicide or physician aid-in-dying for...In the absence of legal reform, assisted suicide for the terminally ill is now occurring...
- Three strikes: is an assisted suicide right out?
- Magazine article from: Issues in Law & Medicine Bopp, James J., Jr. Coleson, Richard E. June 22, 1999 700+ words
...advocates of legalized physician-assisted suicide ("PAS") got three strikes in their...establish a constitutional right to assisted suicide. Two federal appellate court decisions...in state legislatures.(4) Have assisted suicide advocates struck out in their effort...
Source: HighBeam Research, New Documentary Footage Chronicles Euthanasia Abuses in Oregon,...