A Right to "Self Preservation"

A Court of Appeals has ruled that terminally ill people have the right to access experimental drug treatments that might save their lives. Ruling that dying patients have a basic “right of self-preservation,” the court held that experimental drugs that have passed the first phase of FDA . . . . Continue Reading »

The Suicide Senator

Dianne Feinstein has endorsed AB 651, which would legalize physician-assisted suicide. Reading her letter is a case study in spin and ignorance—exactly what we see from Senator Feinstein in the cloning issue—as I describe fully in Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World. And now, she . . . . Continue Reading »

Andrea Clark: The Bigger Picture

This piece of wisdom was sent to me by Steven Drake, one of the movers and shakers in the disability rights movement. I agree with his point about the Andrea Clark “victory” wholeheartedly:“This [my previous post] is definitely a cause for celebration, but I think that is much too . . . . Continue Reading »

St Luke’s To Do the Right Thing

I have just heard from Jerri Ward: St. Luke’s has agreed to continue to provide Andrea Clark life sustaining treatment under the auspices of the new doctor. Here is her letter:“I want to let you know that St. Luke’s is doing the right thing in this case now. The physician team met . . . . Continue Reading »

Suicide Classes

See the truth of the euthanasia movement: Despite talk of “medical models,” this is the true face of much of the grass roots euthanasia movement. More how to commit suicide classes. Philip Nitschke, who will be a faculty member, supports suicide for troubled teens. And many a dead . . . . Continue Reading »