Wyoming's New Assisted Suicide Bill--To Outlaw It!
Wonder of wonders, Wyoming has stepped up to the plate to outlaw assisted suicide. From HB 120 (no link):
(a) A person who has knowledge that another person intends to commit or attempt to commit suicide and who does either of the following with the intention of enabling or facilitating the suicide commits the offense of assisting suicide:(i) Provides the physical means by which the other person attempts or commits suicide; (ii) Participates in a physical act by which the other person attempts to commit or commits suicide.The bill ensures that good pain control is not considered assisted suicide and that removing unwanted life-sustaining medical treatment is not threatened. Good for Representatives Davison, Brechtel, Jaggi, McKim and Petersen and Senators Cooper, Meier and Peterson for sponsoring this bill.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 8:50 PM
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8 Comments:
There may be de factor attempts to turn "removal of unwanted life support" into a grey area, as it were. What are the penalties? It would open a can of worms, but there should be something about verbal encouragement here of the act while they're at it. I was wondering about Wyoming; now I know why it as ringing to me intuitively. Do any other states have law like this?
I was just thinking of federal law re this issue and it occurred to me: What about laws along the line of the Mann Act re assisted suicide?
I wish *Texas* would write up a law like this. On the one hand, we have a strong pro-life community (anti-Euthanasia), and today starts one of the biggest state-wide fundraisers for St. Jude's Children's Hospital, but on the other hand, since we have the Medical Center, and since medicine *is* expensive, the urge to look at the bottom line, instead of the patients, is starting to whelm our society. It's bad mojo.
T.E.: It's very bad gungee. What Medical Center is that? I don't understand why there are elder-law (it's already becoming a bad sign when one hears that phrase these days) attorneys/firms in Texas that are on the side of "futile care" theory. I've heard that Texas already has a "futile care" law; is that true?
It's not because medicine is expensive; they've made it expensive for the same reason they don't respect the patients and are focused on the bottom line and, worse than that, on their own arrogance and wish to get away with incompetence and lack of ethics. As for the Children's Hospital, well that's very nice but as long as there is animal research wherever there is "help" for humans there is also this other stuff that's not nice for humans just as research isn't nice for the animals. Unalloyed good doesn't come out of the unethical.
GO WYOMING!!!!!
Wonder of wonders? The bill was DEFEATED,
It's wonderful that the bill was introduced, and in the current negative atmosphere its introduction seemed a wonder. SHS didn't say anything more than that. In any event, those who favor life, as opposed to those who desire suicide, don't give up.
"Those who favor life, as opposed to those who desire suicide" should not commit suicide. IMHO, they should also be polite enough to mind their own businesses concerning those who DO, and not try to impose their personal beliefs upon them by legislation.
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