Tag: assisted suicide

MacDonald: Assisted Suicide Bill Advances Without Safety Net

June 26, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Five weeks ago, over on the Substack, I explored how some experts in the UK were uncomfortable about the details of an assisted suicide bill in the House of Commons. Unlike a lot of experts over here, who may see this as a ticket to more revenue, the Royal College of Psychiatrists thought there needed … Read more

MacDonald: Before We Give Them Our Permission to Die …

May 18, 2025 Steve MacDonald

The UK’s Royal College of Psychiatrists (RC Psych) has taken an unusual position on an Assisted Dying Bill before parliament. Unlike many in the US and Canada, the RC Psych has chosen to be cautiously neutral while disagreeing with politicians and advocates that this is the ultimate expression of empathy. When people are miserable, particularly … Read more

Ask Reps: Oppose Assisted Suicide Before Thursday’s Vote

March 18, 2025 Cornerstone Action

Thursday, March 20th, the House will be voting on HB 254, which would legalize physician-assisted suicide for those facing an illness deemed likely to be terminal within six months by a physician. Last year, this bill passed in the House by the skin of its teeth — a mere two votes sent it to the Senate where it was ultimately defeated. To … Read more

Killing You Softly

February 26, 2025 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire is taking another shot at state-supervised suicide (HB 254), and I admit to not having paid nearly enough attention this time around. It is true that we can’t cover every bill or focus on what may be important to you or your group, but I’ve written extensively on the pitfalls of what the … Read more

If The State Isn’t Welcome In Your Death Bed, Don’t Advocate To Let Them In

February 25, 2025 Lori Safford

Rebuttal to Steven Gordon: The state isn’t welcome in my deathbed Like Steven Gordon, I spent almost five hours at the State House earlier this month listening to testimony supporting and opposing HB 254. Two of my three children who have experienced suicidal ideation testified. Supporters like Steve call this bill “the End of Life … Read more

Testimony In Opposition to NH’s Latest Assisted Suicide Bill

February 1, 2025 Steve MacDonald

The “death with dignity” folks are back with another wordy piece of legislation to get the State into the business of supervising self-discorporation. While we have more than demonstrated how dangerous this course is, those obsessed with death and depopulation continue to seek paths to state-managed suicide. The first hearing for this year’s “effort” (HB254) … Read more

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Canada Would Like Your Organs Before They Kill You

January 15, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Canada is ready for a political change. Justin Trudeau is at the end of his political leash and has promised to step down as soon as his tyrannical party agrees to a replacement. He has no chance of winning the upcoming election (sounds like Biden), and they need a plan B (like Kamala) who will … Read more

Slippery Meet Slope: When Is Assisted Suicide Murder?

November 23, 2024November 23, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Euthanasia advocates are keen to point out all the safeguards, guardrails if you like, that they cram into legislation meant to legalize their obsession with death (assisted suicide). As with any other law, it only matters if they have teeth and that someone enforces them and the police do not really exist to keep you … Read more

Slippery Meet Slope: Another COVID Vaxx Injured Canadian Gets Suicided

October 31, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The Can in Canada looks increasingly like, “Can we find a reason to kill you?” and “What hoops are here to jump through so we can?” It’s not a new problem. The Grok has followed Canada’s ride down the slippery slope for a number of years. A path littered with bodies as assisted suicides rise … Read more

Is the Answer to the Housing Crisis Assisted Suicide?

October 21, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Like most of what the government tries to do, the goal is never what you see on the surface. The patina is meant to suggest compassion, but at the end of the day, the government’s role has become a question of how it survives on a dwindling resource (you or your labor). It robs you … Read more

MacDonald: Slippery Slope: Canada Kills 15,000* in 2023 as Disabled ‘Fight’ for Their Lives

July 14, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Canada wasn’t the first, but they’ve become something of a poster child for Medically induced death. Euphemistically referred to as medical aid in dying (unless it’s capital punishment), rising numbers of Canadians are being lined up at the assisted suicide death mills for discorporation. It is true that some will or are members of the … Read more

Abortion To Medically Assisted Suicide, Where Will It End

May 30, 2024 Ray Cardello

Just because other countries do something does not mean we must adopt it, too. America used to pride itself on being the innovator, setting the trends for others to follow. Not any longer.

ICYMI – NH’s Assisted Suicide Bill Has Been Benched: 17-7 Vote to Send it To Interim Study

May 19, 2024 Steve MacDonald

In case you missed it, the New Hampshire assisted suicide bill got benched this week. The New Hampshire State Senate, in a rare roll call vote, voted to send the bill to an Interim study. They didn’t kill the bill, but by suggesting it needs a deeper, longer look, they sidelined it indefinitely.

From Live Free or Die to Come Here and Die

November 12, 2024May 9, 2024 Hal Shurtleff

First, the so-called elites promoted Eugenics, which led to forced sterilization laws. Then it was abortion, first decriminalized in California and New York, and then decriminalized by the now overturned Roe v Wade decision.

Help Stop State-Sanctioned Suicide

April 23, 2024 Op-Ed

Quick reminder that tomorrow (Wed @ 10am) is the Senate Committee hearing for HB1283, a bill to legalize assisted suicide. It will be in NH’s Legislative Office Building, room 103 (note room change from earlier).

Night Cap: Assisted Suicide Will Start Out Well-Meaning, Then Gradually Revert To its Eugenic Roots

April 22, 2024 Steve MacDonald

There is ample evidence throughout history, much of it recent, that claiming compassion to justify government-sanctioned suicide is a trap. Yes, chronic pain is terrible, but not nearly so much as the power of a State that inevitably sees it as a way to solve problems it created or just “problems.”

Oppose HB1283 – The So-Called “End of Life Options” Bill

December 24, 2024April 22, 2024 Lori Safford

As the mother and primary caregiver for two adult sons with significant disability, the legally responsible daughter for my 87-yo mom suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer’s, and the widow to my husband, who lost his battle with pulmonary disease back in 2012, I’d like to give my perspective on HB 1283 Assisted Suicide.

empty hospital bed original Photo by Frederic Köberl on Unsplash

Assisted Sui-Side-Effects: Burning Throat, Vomiting, … Taking Six Days to Die

March 26, 2024March 26, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Oregon allows anyone from anywhere to obtain medically assisted death (with dignity) in the Beaver State, but it doesn’t always go as advertised, as in, ‘gee beave, I didn’t think it was gonna take that long to die.’

New Hampshire Right to Life Urges State Senate & Governor to Oppose Assisted Suicide, HB1283

March 23, 2024 Op-Ed

The New Hampshire House passed HB1283, also known as Assisted Suicide or Medical Aid in Dying, by a 179-176 vote this afternoon[0]. New Hampshire Right to Life (NHRTL) and a broad coalition of other organizations[1], staunchly oppose this legislation and call on the NH Senate and Governor to reject it.

Before You Put NH on the Assisted Suicide Slippery Slope (HB1283), Please Read This!

March 19, 2024March 19, 2024 Steve MacDonald

States that open the door to medically assisted dying on the argument that it is compassionate are being used to leverage empathy for the terminally ill to advance a completely different agenda.