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| Alex Schadenberg |
Executive Director,
Will there ever be enough killing?
Will there ever be enough killers?
On January 30, I published an article concerning Vermont Bill 75 that expands Vermont's assisted suicide law for the third time.
Oregon are also debating a bill to expand their assisted suicide law for the third time. Oregon assisted suicide bill SB 1003 will allow non doctors to prescribe death.
SB 1003 changes the term "attending physician" to "prescribling provider" and "consulting physician" to "consulting provider."
Provider means:
(a) A physician licensed...,
(b) A physician assistant licensed...,
(c) A nurse practitioner licensed...
Therefore SB 1003 will allow non physicians, such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners to participate in killing.
The weak link for the assisted suicide lobby is that very few doctors are willing to be involved with killing their patients. By adding physician assistants and nurse practitioners they will increase the number of providers who are willing to be involved with killing.
SB 1003 also reduces the waiting period from 15 days to 48 hours while enabling the "providing prescriber" to waive the waiting period to essentially allow a same day death.
SB 1003 also requires hospices and hospitals to publicly disclose their assisted suicide policy. Hospices and other healthcare facilities will be required to inform patients of their assisted suicide policy and post their assisted suicide policy online.
SB 1003 is the third time that Oregon is expanding their assisted suicide law.
In 2019 Oregon passed Bill SB 0579 which allowed doctors to waive the 15 day waiting period.
In 2023 Oregon passed Bill HB 2279 which removed Oregon's assisted suicide law residency requirement.
The 2023 Oregon assisted suicide report indicates that there were 367 reported assisted suicide deaths up by 21% from 304 in 2022. Will there ever be enough killing?
2 comments:
As of 2/14/25, no public hearing has been scheduled for Oregon SB1003, though they have the text at the link above. They are not accepting registrations for submissions of written or oral testimony right now. Alex, I will send you my notes on the text of the bill; if you hear before I do about a public hearing on this bill, please let me know. Thanks, Kathleen
Physician Assistants & Nurse Practitioners Just As Any Other Medical Guru, Specialist, Physician, etc... Abuses & Can Abuse Any Vulnerable Patient, Friends & Family Members; There Is NO LAW ANYWHERE THAT PREVENTS ANY OF THIS BUT WHAT IS REALLY SAD IS THAT OREGON HAS GONE MAD TO LEGALLY EXPAND EVEN MORE LEGAL ABUSE WHICH IS NOT NATURAL & ETHICAL;
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