The Delaware Legislature has rejected a bill that would have legalized so-called physician-assisted suicide. The bill was defeated on June 20 in the Senate after passing the House in April.
The turning point for the bill came from an investigative report that shows physician-assisted suicide laws always start with limited scope but are continuously increased to include more and more exceptions and include more and more groups that could be eligible for “legalized suicide.”
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Excerpt from www.lifenews.com
On Wednesday, June 12, the Delaware State Senate debated assisted suicide Bill HB 140. The last online presenter was Kim Callinan, the President of the assisted suicide group, Compassion & Choices. In her presentation Callinan lied three times about key issues.
The first lie was that there have been no abuses of the law.
An article by Jennifer Brown that was published in the Colorado Sun on March 14 reported that Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani, an internal medicine doctor who specializes in eating disorders published a paper on how she prescribed assisted suicide for three people with anorexia nervosa in Colorado. Gaudiani approves assisted suicide for Anorexia Nervosa by falsely defining the condition as terminal.
Kevin Dias, the Chief Legal Advocacy Officer for Compassion & Choices responded to the Colorado Sun article by stating that:
Medical aid-in-dying laws apply only to mentally capable, terminally ill patients with six months or less to live who are able to self-ingest the medication. Any deviation from these requirements violates the law and places physicians, family members and others in regulatory, civil and criminal jeopardy. This law does not and was never intended to apply to a person whose only diagnosis is anorexia nervosa.
