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PRESS RELEASES
- Oregon Issues Grossly Inadequate Report -- Again
March 18, 2008
Olympia -- The tenth annual "Death with Dignity" report released today by the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) is "deeply flawed," said Dr. Shane Macaulay, a member of the Coalition Against Assisted Suicide, the organization leading opposition to Washington's Initiative 1000, which would legalize assisted suicide.
READ MORE > - Coalition Applauds Court Ruling Changing I-1000 title
Feb 29, 2008
The Coalition Against Assisted Suicide today applauded the decision of Superior Court Judge Chris Wickham to clarify the ballot title language of Initiative 1000, the proposed measure to legalize assisted suicide in Washington. "The new title clearly states that physicians will be given power to assist their patients to commit suicide, " said Shane Macaulay, a physician member of the coalition. "Doctors don't want that authority and we believe it is dangerous. "
READ MORE > - Coalition Challenges I-1000 Ballot Title and Summary
Feb 9, 2008
Saying it is written with biased and unclear language, The Coalition Against Assisted Suicide has filed a challenge to the ballot title of Initiative 1000, the assisted suicide initiative, asking a Thurston County Superior Court judge to rewrite the title to make it impartial and accurate.
READ MORE > - Coalition Against Assisted Suicide Denounces Initiative Filing
January 8, 2008
A coalition of people with disabilities, doctors, nurses, hospice workers, minority persons, and religious groups today announced they would oppose the assisted suicide initiative expected to be filed Wednesday with Washington's Secretary of State. "Twenty-five states have already rejected various forms of assisted suicide, including the Oregon model, " said Duane French, spokesman for the nonpartisan group Coalition Against Assisted Suicide.
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NEWS ARTICLES
- I-1000 campaign seeks to sell voters on death
By JOEL CONNELLY, P-I COLUMNIST
March 30, 2008 10:50 p.m. PT
If you are campaigning for the "right" of people to kill themselves, the first challenge is finding a nonlethal definition: Soft, reassuring terms must be substituted for the off-putting phrase "assisted suicide."
"Death with dignity is not suicide: Nor is assisted suicide, or physician-assisted suicide," proclaims ex-Gov. Booth Gardner in a fundraising letter for Initiative 1000, which would allow terminally ill adults to request and administer lethal medication prescribed by a doctor.
READ MORE > - Gardner crusade is a selfish last act
By JOEL CONNELLY, P-I COLUMNIST
January 11, 2008
A man of optimism and often-impish humor -- his voice was once likened to Elmer Fudd on helium -- ex-Gov. Booth Gardner seems like the last person you'd associate with the Grim Reaper. Gardner is, however, pressing ahead with his "last campaign," an initiative to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the state of Washington. The cause is controversial even in definition: Advocates speak of "death with dignity." Critics call it "legalized euthanasia."
READ MORE > - The Spokand Spokesman Review public an excellent series they called the "Death and Dying dialogues " in February, 2008.
Death and Dying, Take Three
This Sunday, we published part three of our Death and Dying Dialogues. We interviewed three members of the Washington Coalition Against Assisted Suicide, a group that has formed in opposition to Initiative 1000, the so-called Death with Dignity Act.
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