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Posted on 01/14/2008 4:15:58 PM PST by wagglebee
Madison, WI (LifeNews.com) -- The Wisconsin legislature will hold a hearing on a bill that would legalize assisted suicide and make the state the second after Oregon to allow the grisly practice. The bill follows similar measures in other states such as Vermont, Hawaii and California that failed last year and a new ballot initiative in Washington.
State Sen. Fred Risser and state Rep. Frank Boyle, two Democrats, are behind the legislation, which would allow terminally ill patients to request life-ending drugs from their physicians.
The bill requires patients to get their terminally ill condition verified by two doctors and they must be expected to die within the next six months. Only then can they request the drugs to be used in killing themselves.
Risser and Boyle has proposed similar bills in previous years but they never received votes in either state House or Senate.
On January 23, the Senate Public Health, Senior Issues, Long Term Care and Privacy Committee will hold a public hearing on the measure, SB 151.
Wisconsin Right to Life told LifeNews.com on Monday that the group will testify against the bill and do everything it can to urge lawmakers to vote against it.
"We must guard against those 'choices' which victimize the vulnerable, ourselves, and society as a whole," WRTL legislative director Susan Armacost told LifeNews.com.
"Doctors should heal, not kill. We must maintain the healing tradition of medicine," she said. "Wisconsin Right to Life will spare no resources in making sure this legislation is stopped dead in its tracks!"
Armacost points out that patients are sometimes misdiagnosed and could make an irreversible decision to die based on the wrong information.
She also pointed to a Netherlands study showing that doctors allowed to engage in assisted suicide feel the law should be expanded to include euthanasia. She worries doctors could coerce patients into choosing assisted suicide or that they may not get adequate mental health care that could help them see it as a poor option.
ACTION: Go to this web page and tell the members of the Wisconsin Senate panel that you oppose SB 151.
Related web sites:
Wisconsin Right to Life - http://www.wrtl.org
Wisconsin state legislature - http://www.legis.state.wi.us
"Doctors should heal, not kill. We must maintain the healing tradition of medicine," she said. "Wisconsin Right to Life will spare no resources in making sure this legislation is stopped dead in its tracks!"
And it truly is the most vulnerable that are targeted by these monsters.
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It convinced me that doctor assisted suicide is a one way street with no changing your mind. It should never be sanctioned by any state.
Liberals killin liberals, how wonderful!
One of the LIKELY objects of Universal Health Care...The right of the state to pull the plug (before they can collect too much social security).
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When oh, when are we going to get the Dems out of office here in Wisconsin... I’ve only been here 4 years and I’ve had ENOUGH of them!
Another thing I’d like to complain about here... (lol). If it weren’t for FR, I probably wouldn’t have a clue that this was even being considered here... Such is the sad state of our local news media.
If you can get either of them in, these two radio shows are awesome:
Charlie Sykes 620AM 8:30-12:00
Vicki Mckenna 1310AM 3:00-6:00
The party of death is behind this. The same party that rejoices over abortions and murder of the sick and elderly.
No wonder the party of death favors the cult of death.
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