By Margaret Dore, Esq, MBA
Click here to view a pdf version of this document, consisting of an index, a short memo and an appendix.
I. INTRODUCTION
I am a licensed attorney in Washington State where “death with dignity” (assisted suicide and euthanasia) is legal. Washington’s law is based on a similar law in Oregon. Both laws are similar to the proposed Act set forth in HB 1659-FN.[1]
I am also a former Law Clerk to the Washington State Supreme Court and the Washington State Court of Appeals. I worked for a year with the United States Department of Justice and have been in private practice since 1990. I am also president of Choice is an Illusion, a nonprofit corporation opposed to assisted suicide and euthanasia.
I have personally appeared and testified against assisted suicide and/or euthanasia in at least 20 US legislatures, including New Hampshire, and also internationally. For more information see www.margaretdore.org and www.choiceillusion.org.
pages posted
- New Hampshire Home
- Click Here to Return to Main Site
- Assisting Persons Can Have an Agenda
- Assisted Suicide Traumatic
- It Wasn't the Father Saying That He Wanted to Die
- I Was Afraid to Leave My Husband Alone
- Years or Decades to Live
- Mild Stroke Led to Mother's Forced Starvation
- Deaths Will Be Reported as Natural
- Mistake to Ask About Assisted Suicide
Friday, February 7, 2020
Friday, February 23, 2018
SB 490 Was Gateway to Assisted Suicide and the Senate Just Slammed It Shut, For Now
Senator Donna Soucy, Esq. |
SB 490 was gateway to assisted suicide [legalization], and the Senate just slammed it shut for now
On a 12-10 vote, the New Hampshire Senate has killed a bill that would have paved the way for assisted suicide. I did not see that result coming. Thank-yous are in order, including one I didn’t think I’d ever be writing.
Voting “inexpedient to legislate,” sending the bill into the trash heap: Senators Bob Giuda, James Gray, Harold French, Ruth Ward, Gary Daniels, Kevin Avard, John Reagan, Donna Soucy, Regina Birdsell, Chuck Morse, William Gannon, and Dan Innis. If any one of them had voted differently, today’s outcome would have been different.
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