20 Years with Oregon’s Assisted Suicide Law

October 27 marks 20 years since Oregon’s Physician Assisted Suicide law took effect. Oregon was the first U.S. state and first government in the world to legalize physician assisted suicide. First introduced as Measure 16, it is regarded as one of the most controversial ballot measures in Oregon’s history and has resulted in the deaths […]

Life Notes – Sept/Nov

Seven states are nearly abortion free! Seven states in the U.S. have only one abortion clinic left, including Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Pro-life lawmakers in Kentucky and Mississippi have been particularly diligent in their work to protect unborn babies from abortion. Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin has cracked down […]

An Agonizingly Cruel Death Sentence

Physician assisted suicide legislation has been making the news recently. Legalized euthanasia in Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, and other European nations have has also generated headlines. However, a silent, rampant killer is intentionally claiming lives of far more too many patients each day in America’s medical facilities. This quiet, legal killer is taking the lives […]

Assisted Suicides Up in Oregon

According to the 2016 assisted suicide report, put out by Oregon’s Public Health Division, there were 133 reported assisted suicide deaths in 2016. There were 204 lethal prescriptions obtained in 2016. Once the prescribing physician writes the prescription, the law does not require further oversight. After the person’s death, the prescribing physician is required to […]

Assisted Suicide: A Slippery Slope

During the campaign to legalize physician-assisted suicide in Oregon in 1997, supporters said it would simply give people in protracted pain a “death with dignity.” Opponents argued that the law had no safeguards, would be abused, and that other states would soon follow suit. Those warnings have proven to be true: Additional states legalize assisted […]