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Here are the links to the articles about the victory in CT.  How we wish they were about a victory in VT!  Still, we are overjoyed that the passage of assisted suicide in Vermont did not topple the other dominoes, not at all.  If passage here was a victory for “the movement”, Maine, New Hampshire, […]

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Good News, But Be Vigilant

Members of the Public Health Committee in the CT legislature are saying there probably won’t be a vote on the assisted suicide bill this year.  If there is no vote, the bill would be dead for this session of the legislature.  That is exceedingly good news, and, if true, it leaves Vermont isolated among the […]

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The Vermont House recently passed H. 105, an act requiring the Commissioner of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living, part of the VT Department of Human Services, to provide quarterly information on the number of adult abuse reports received by the department, the number actually investigated, the number declared unsubstianted after an investigation, and the reasons […]

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Comments Needed on Bennington Banner Article

The article linked and underlined below is based on interviews with one of our board members and with a board member of Vermont’s  pro-assisted suicide group.  Please post your comments opposing assisted suicide as soon as possible, both on the Bennington Banner site and on our Facebook page.  Also please share this article and ask your […]

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True Dignity is quite happy with the version of S. 77 that passed the Senate this afternoon. News reports to the contrary, the bill is not in any way an assisted suicide bill.  It replaces the original 22 page bill with a very short one.  It specifically does not exempt a doctor who intentionally helps […]

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Did you know that if f S. 77 becomes law in Vermont, anyone of us could find out only afterwards that a beloved relative or friend had committed suicide with assistance from a doctor?   S. 77 instructs doctors to recommend that a patient requesting assisted suicide tell family and friends, but it does not require […]

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Yesterday’s testimony before the Health and Welfare and Judiciary Committees ended with Margaret Battin, a philosopher from the University of Utah who concluded in a 2007 study that “vulnerable groups” had not been harmed by the Oregon law or by the legality of assisted suicide and euthanasia in the Netherlands.  The assisted suicide lobby has […]

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