California Assisted Suicide Bill Supplants Bill to Help Poor Patients

by Wesley J. Smith

This is rich: Assembypersons Patty Berg and Lloyd Levine, desperately trying to save their misbegotten assisted suicide bill, have “gutted” a bipartisan bill (AB 651)that passed the Assembly to help poor people on Medi-CAL (Medicaid), and replaced it with their otherwise . . . . Continue Reading »

8 Jun 2005 0

How The Supreme Court Medical Marijuana Decision Will Impact Assisted Suicide

by Wesley J. Smith

As promised, here is my analysis of Gonzales v. Raich. I have read the entire decision and dissents. It seems to me that unless the court decides to be wildly inconsistent, or awards the win to Oregon based on a technical flaw in the way that Attorney General John Ashcroft sought to preclude the use . . . . Continue Reading »

8 Jun 2005 0

Medical Marijuana Decision Should Be Game, Set, and Match on Assisted Suicide Case

by Wesley J. Smith

I have always believed strongly that the Ninth Circuit District and Court of Appeals were wrong in preventing the federal government from declaring that assisted suicide is not a legitimate medical use of federally controlled substances (e.g., narcotics), even in the face of the Oregon law . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Jun 2005 0

Where is the Terri Schiavo Autopsy Report?

by Wesley J. Smith

It has been more than two months. Inquiring minds want to . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Jun 2005 0

California Assisted Suicide Bill Faltering But Not Deceased

by Wesley J. Smith

But for the very undemocratic procedural moves that the rules of the California Assembly permit, AB 654, the assisted suicide legalization bill, would be dead and buried. Sigh. Well, it may be the legislative answer to Rasputin, but we’ll keep working to put this turkey out if its misery. . . . . Continue Reading »

2 Jun 2005 0