Thank you to our volunteers who braved the smoke to join us at the 2018 Northwest Montana Fair in Kalispell.
We educated the public about problems with legalization, including how people with years to live are encouraged to throw away their lives, and fatal elder abuse.
Thanks especially, to everyone who worked the table, including Lucinda Hardy of Columbia Falls, Gail Bell of Bozeman and Linda Clark of Seattle. To read Lucinda's story, click here. To read Gail's story, click here.
Monday, August 20, 2018
Sunday, August 20, 2017
Thank You Senator Hinkle
L-R, Margaret Dore, Senator Greg Hinkle (ret.) and his wife, Gail Hinkle |
Volunteers included former State Senator Greg Hinkle, who stood alone to stand up against assisted suicide legalization. His leadership was a key reason for the 2011 defeat of SB 167, which had sought to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia in Montana.
Since then bills seeking to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia in Montana have repeatedly failed.
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Greg Hinkle
Friday, August 18, 2017
In Oregon, Other Suicides Have Increased with the Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide
By Margaret K. Dore, Esq.
Since
the passage of Oregon’s law allowing physician-assisted suicide, other
suicides in Oregon have steadily increased. This is consistent with a
suicide contagion in which the legalization of physician-assisted
suicides has encouraged other suicides. In Oregon, the financial and
emotional impacts of suicide on family members and the broader community
are devastating and long-lasting.[1]
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Hall Declaration: " If Dr. Stevens had believed in assisted suicide, I would be dead"
I, JEANETTE HALL, declare as follows:
1. I live in Oregon where assisted suicide is legal. Our law was enacted in 1997 via a ballot measure that I voted for.
2. In 2000, I was diagnosed with cancer and told that I had 6 months to a year to live. I knew that our law had passed, but I didn’t know exactly how to go about doing it. I tried to ask my doctor, Kenneth Stevens, but he didn’t really answer me. In hindsight, he was stalling me.
3. I did not want to suffer. I wanted to do our law and I wanted Dr. Stevens to help me. Instead, he encouraged me to not give up and ultimately I decided to fight the cancer. I had both chemotherapy and radiation. I am so happy to be alive!
4. It has now been 17 years since my diagnosis. If Dr. Stevens had believed in assisted suicide, I would be dead. Assisted suicide should not be legal.
_/s/__________
Jeanette Hall
1. I live in Oregon where assisted suicide is legal. Our law was enacted in 1997 via a ballot measure that I voted for.
2. In 2000, I was diagnosed with cancer and told that I had 6 months to a year to live. I knew that our law had passed, but I didn’t know exactly how to go about doing it. I tried to ask my doctor, Kenneth Stevens, but he didn’t really answer me. In hindsight, he was stalling me.
3. I did not want to suffer. I wanted to do our law and I wanted Dr. Stevens to help me. Instead, he encouraged me to not give up and ultimately I decided to fight the cancer. I had both chemotherapy and radiation. I am so happy to be alive!
4. It has now been 17 years since my diagnosis. If Dr. Stevens had believed in assisted suicide, I would be dead. Assisted suicide should not be legal.
_/s/__________
Jeanette Hall
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Jeanette Hall,
Ken Stevens MD,
Oregon
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