Posted on 02/22/2025 3:07:35 PM PST by DFG
A dangerous new bill introduced in the Oregon legislature would lower guardrails to obtain assisted suicide prescriptions, putting medically vulnerable people at risk in Oregon and across the country.
Senate Bill 1003, introduced during Oregon’s 83rd legislative session, would modify existing terminology in Oregon’s “Death With Dignity” law to allow physician assistants and nurse practitioners, rather than exclusively physicians, to prescribe lethal drugs to end the lives of people diagnosed with a terminal illness. The bill would expand access to legal assisted suicide, which has already skyrocketed in recent years as a cause of death for Oregonians and out-of-state residents.
“This bill is dangerous and must be stopped,” Oregon Right to Life executive director Lois Anderson said. “If passed, it will usher in death on demand available to anyone whether they live in Oregon or not.”
A dangerous new bill introduced in the Oregon legislature would lower guardrails to obtain assisted suicide prescriptions, putting medically vulnerable people at risk in Oregon and across the country.
Senate Bill 1003, introduced during Oregon’s 83rd legislative session, would modify existing terminology in Oregon’s “Death With Dignity” law to allow physician assistants and nurse practitioners, rather than exclusively physicians, to prescribe lethal drugs to end the lives of people diagnosed with a terminal illness. The bill would expand access to legal assisted suicide, which has already skyrocketed in recent years as a cause of death for Oregonians and out-of-state residents.
“This bill is dangerous and must be stopped,” Oregon Right to Life executive director Lois Anderson said. “If passed, it will usher in death on demand available to anyone whether they live in Oregon or not.”
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Wow, Oregonians are loosing their minds.
Do they get to hang them if they want??? S I C K !!!
They never seem to have that stuff around when some scumbag is on death row, but now any NP can write a scrip?
Demoncrats worship death.
No wonder Islam appeals to them.
But can they kill a wolf eating their calves?
The serial killer lobby will go berserk.
I just used DuckDuckGo to search suicide kits. There’s something called the exit bag where you put a bag over your head and pump in helium. Then there are actual kits you can buy. So, I’m wondering why the state government feels the need to legalize non doctors to assist. Most likely anyone who does this would be a psychopath. I always thought that Dr. Kevorkian was just a serial killer who got off on killing people. There’s something going on here beyond just the proposed legislation.
The Oregon gov’t needs to be metaphorically offed.
Let those east of the Cascades join up with I-Da-Ho,
At first it is voluntary then it becomes mandatory.
This is a very slippery slope.
The Miss Ebonics pageant is always missing the contestant from I-Da-Ho"
Nitrogen is cheaper.
Don’t even need a script for insulin. An overdose is fatal.
Lots of suicide kits around. The following companies build them. There’s Colt, Ruger, Smith & Wesson, Taurus, H&K, Walther, and Remington to just name a few. This is pretty insane. IMO
Nitrogen is cheaper
.....
Hey!
Splurge!
You only die once!
I’m conflicted on this one. On the one hand, the fewer Oregonians there are the better. On the other hand......ehhhhhh..
I forget the downside.
Lawrence Edwin Craig is but 79.
He isn’t a perennial contestant?
Democrats used to take pride in protecting the vulnerable: the poor, the working class, etc.
Now they take pride in killing the vulnerable: the unborn, the sick, etc.
What an odd turn of events, to say the least.
I have a strong suspicion that the people likely to commit suicide are constitutionally against firearms.
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