Heidi Harris Show Featuring Dr. Brian Callister
Dr. Brian Callister joined Heidi Harris February 26, 2019 to discuss Nevada's Physician Assisted Suicide Bill SB165 and the Senate HHS Committee Hearing on SB165. ...
26 February, 2019
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Nevada Senate Committee Hears Assisted Suicide Bill SB165
February 25, 2019 the Nevada Senate Health and Human Services Committee held a hearing on SB165 - Physician Assisted Suicide. Compassion & Choices had testimony from paid advocates and lobbyists and a few non-paid citizens. Opponents from all across Nevada, called, emailed and showed up...
26 February, 2019
Hearing on SB261, Doctor Prescribed Suicide, May 10th, 3.30 PM
For Immediate Release May 9, 2017 Contact: Don Nelson 775-530-0029, donnelson@sbcglobal.net Hearing on SB261, Doctor Prescribed Suicide, May 10th, 3.30 PM After abruptly cancelling a hearing on SB261 on April 12th in response to mass opposition to the bill, a hearing has been scheduled for Wednesday May 10th at...
10 May, 2017
Brittany Maynard’s choice is not death with dignity
Brittany Maynard's choice is not death with dignity Debra Saunders10:36 a.m. EDT October 15, 2014 (Photo: AP ) I'd like to think that if I got the bad news that Brittany Maynard received — terminal cancer with a prognosis of less than six months left to live —...
11 December, 2016
Assisted suicide raises troubling issues
In a Sept. 21 column, David Orentlicher proclaims that Indiana can feel comfortable with “aid in dying.” Not if you’re a Hoosier with a disability. Although Dr. Orentlicher claims assisted suicide is not designed “to hasten the deaths of the disadvantaged,” and references the “absence...
11 December, 2016
Does A Disabled Child Have The Right To Die? | Wisconsin Public Radio
As a patient suffering from Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type II, Wisconsin teenager Jerika Bolen spent most of her time in a wheelchair using a ventilator to breathe. She decided to end treatment and died in late September, spurring a new round of the right-to-die debate....
16 November, 2016
McGovern: Right to die suit may be what the doctor ordered | Boston Herald
Two Cape Cod doctors have asked the courts to decide whether terminally ill patients can dictate their own deaths — a novel legal maneuver that could change the law in Massachusetts and grant new controversial rights to those facing their final days. The suit was brought...
16 November, 2016
Listen to Sarah’s Story – How the Vermont Assisted Suicide Law Pressured Her Family
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16 November, 2016
Doctor-assisted suicide? Neutrality is not an option – Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel Nov 13, 2016 By: Frederick J. White While deeply committed to effective relief of the pain and suffering of the terminally ill, the American Medical Association has long held a position that I share — that physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are “fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s...
16 November, 2016
MY VIEW: Give us better care for living, not aid in dying
Assisted suicide bills have been failing consistently in progressive states like New York, Massachusetts, Maryland and Connecticut. New Yorkers are seeing through the euphemisms and misinformation of proponents. Articles like Bonnie Kraham's call what Jack Kevorkian did "care." Assisted suicide proponents claim that this is...
18 September, 2016