California Assembly Health Committee: Vote NO on SB 128

I am an attorney from Washington State where assisted suicide is legal.  Enclosed please find a memo and attachments in opposition to SB 128.  Points include:

• SB 128 will legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia for young adults with chronic conditions such as diabetes.
• There is a complete lack of oversight when the lethal dose is administered (even if the patient struggled, who would know?)
• The bill requires falsification of the death certificate, which will prevent legal recourse and justice to patients and their families harmed by the bill.

If SB 128 becomes law, people with years, even decades to live, will be encouraged to throw away their lives; patients and their families will be traumatized. 

SB 128, as written, will allow the perfect crime.  Even if you like the concept of assisted suicide and euthanasia, SB 128 is the wrong bill.

Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA
Law Offices of Margaret K. Dore, PS
Choice is an Illusion, a nonprofit corporation
www.margaretdore.com
www.choiceillusion.org
1001 4th Avenue,  Suite 4400
Seattle, WA  98154
206 389 1754

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Sign our petition against SB 128:

1.  Click this link to print a petition.

2.  Print the petition from the link above, sign it, get your friends and neighbors to sign it, and fax the completed petition to 206 389 1530.

3.  For any questions, contact:  contact.turnoutcalifornia@gmail.com

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Choice is an Illusion

"Medical killing is already occurring in California and elsewhere, which is causing much suffering and tearing families apart"

Dear Senators,

I am writing to urge you to vote "NO" on SB 128, which seeks to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Medical killing is already occurring in California and elsewhere, which is causing much suffering and tearing families apart. 

California cases are documented at this website link to the Kaiser papers: http://kaiserpapers.org/abt.html

Another case in point is my mother who died a horrible death by medically supervised dehydration.  See here.

Meanwhile, attorney Margaret Dore reports on two cases in her recent press release involving legal assisted suicide, in which both patients and their families were traumatized: the second case implies an actual murder.  See here.

It's time to stop the madness. Please send a strong statement by voting NO.

What happens in California will likely affect the rest of the world. I urge you to please vote against SB 128.

Thank you,

Kate Kelly, B.A., B.Ed.

Northwest Territories, Canada

Dr. Bill Toffler: "I hope that California does not repeat Oregon’s mistake."

Dear Senator,

I have been a professor of family medicine and a practicing physician in Oregon for more than 30 years. I write to provide some insight on the issue of assisted suicide, which is legal in Oregon, and which has been proposed for legalization in California (SB 128, which seeks to pass an Oregon-style assisted suicide bill).

Oregon’s law applies to “terminal” patients who are predicted to have less than six months to live.  In practice, this idea of “terminal” has recently become stretched to include people with chronic conditions, such as “chronic lower respiratory disease” and “diabetes”.  Persons with these conditions are considered terminal if they are dependent on their medications, such as insulin, to live.  They are unlikely die in less than six months unless they don’t receive their medications.  Such persons, with treatment, could otherwise have years or even decades to live.

This illustrates a great problem with our law — it encourages people with years to live, to throw away their lives.