International Task Force
on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
SPOTLIGHT on OREGON
| Oregon, Belgium and The Netherlands are the only places in the world that have laws specifically permitting assisted suicide. Oregon's law has become the "model" that is being or will be considered in other states and countries. As those proposals are under consideration, it remains to be seen whether decision-makers will rely on the deceptively rosy picture painted by assisted-suicide supporters - or on the documented reality of the Oregon Experience. ............................ Oregon Health Plan refuses to pay for prescribed treatment, but tells patient it will pay for assisted suicide if she chooses it. "A Gift of Treatment" (Register-Guard; Eugene, OR; June 3, 2008)
"Physician-Assisted
Suicide in Oregon: A Medical Perspective,"
"Oregon's assisted-suicide law:
Revealing Quotes from Those in the Know" Oregon
Statistics
Ten Years of
Assisted Suicide in Oregon
Tenth Official Report on assisted suicide in Oregon. (3/18/08)
Oregon's Assisted-Suicide
Law: Reports & Safeguards
............................ Oregon's Assisted Suicide Law All Official Annual Reports: Oregon's Death
with Dignity Act: The Second Year Experience Oregon's Death
with Dignity Act: The Third Year Experience Oregon's Death
with Dignity Act: The Fourth Year Experience Oregon's Death
with Dignity Act: The Fifth Year Experience Oregon's Death with
Dignity Act: The Sixth Year Experience Oregon's Death with
Dignity Act: The Seventh Year Experience Oregon's Death with
Dignity Act: The Eighth Year Experience Oregon's Death with
Dignity Act: The Ninth Year Experience Oregon's
Death with Dignity Act: The Tenth Year Experience Statistics may not be accurate: Those responsible for issuing official
annual reports have acknowledged, from the very beginning of Oregon's assisted suicide
law, that the reports may not be accurate or complete. According to the Oregon
Health Division, "The entire account [given by a doctor] may be a cock and bull
story. We assume, however that physicians were their usual careful and accurate
selves" Source:
CD
Summary, Oregon Health Division, section titled "Study Limitations." ............................ Articles and Analysis:
"Oregon nixes use of term 'physician-assisted suicide':
"Emotional and Psychological Effects of Physician-Assisted Suicide
and Euthanasia on Participating Physicians" by Kenneth R. Stevens, Jr., M.D., FACR
DHS News Release contradicts
assisted-suicide advocate's claims Proof of Failed Assisted-Suicide Safeguards
in Oregon Doctors of Death Oregon's 3rd Annual
Assisted-Suicide Report: More of the same Oregon psychologists polled on
assisted suicide and state's PAS law (7/99) Oregon report on end-of-life
care shows need for improvement (7/99) Oregon PAS law spun to look
good Oregon death highlights
discriminatory side of PAS law Oregon issues sketchy first
report on assisted suicide deaths Federal judge dismisses latest
challenge to Oregon's law Congressional bills to ban
lethal prescriptions spark debate Reno reverses DEA ruling Guidelines for assisted suicide in
Oregon November-December 1997 IAETF
Update Special Report: Oregon Takes a
Closer Look at Assisted Suicide Flaws in Measure 16 Liar, Liar ................ Gonzales
v. Oregon (previously titled, Oregon v. Ashcroft) The
case, regarding the use of federally
controlled substances for assisted suicide, was decided by the U.S. Supreme
Court on January 17, 2006. Overview of case, U.S. Supreme Court decision,
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision, Text of
Ashcroft Directive, ITF amicus curiae briefs, and more. ................. For additional information on Oregon's law permitting
assisted suicide, use the search function found at the International Task Force Main Page.
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