2000s
In the fall of 2001, the Hemlock
board set in place motions to change and strengthen their organization. With
Caring Friends already carrying out activities that pleased its supporters, it
sought to increase its appeal to the general public. To do that, the board
decided it needed to do two things: bring in a top professional nonprofit
executive to run the organization and to put new strategies, techniques and
methods in place to work in the legislative arena. As part of the transformation, Hemlock
officially changed the name it had used for twenty-three years. In mid-2003 it
became “End-of-Life Choices” with the tag line, Dignity-Compassion-Control.
At the same time, the organization launched its National Advocacy Plan. Included in that plan was completion of a “refined” Oregon-style model law that placed emphasis on pain control. It also announced plans to form groups with names like Doctors for Death with Dignity, Nurses for Death with Dignity, and Clergy for Death with Dignity so that “enemies of choice” would no longer be able to claim that all doctors, nurses and clergy are opposed to assisted suicide.
In 2003 the Death with Dignity Bill was introduced in New Zealand’s Parliament. The purpose of the Bill was to provide the terminally and/or incurably ill an opportunity to request assistance from a medical professional to help end their life. The Bill was defeated on July. 30, 2003 as many New Zealanders are still very much divided on the issue of voluntary euthanasia.
Back in the United States the Bush administration in the 2000s -- backed by a Republican-led Congress -- vigorously took up the issue to make assisted suicide a federal crime and to challenge the Oregon law, eventually appealing all the way to the Supreme Court. The justices in January 2006 ruled against the federal government, dismissing the argument the U.S. attorney general has the power to block Oregon's then-unique law. Medical groups and patient right advocates supported Oregon, while many religious conservatives backed the Bush administration. Oregon was the first state to allow assisted suicide but is now one of four states to do so: Oregon, Washington, Montana and Georgia.
At the same time, the organization launched its National Advocacy Plan. Included in that plan was completion of a “refined” Oregon-style model law that placed emphasis on pain control. It also announced plans to form groups with names like Doctors for Death with Dignity, Nurses for Death with Dignity, and Clergy for Death with Dignity so that “enemies of choice” would no longer be able to claim that all doctors, nurses and clergy are opposed to assisted suicide.
In 2003 the Death with Dignity Bill was introduced in New Zealand’s Parliament. The purpose of the Bill was to provide the terminally and/or incurably ill an opportunity to request assistance from a medical professional to help end their life. The Bill was defeated on July. 30, 2003 as many New Zealanders are still very much divided on the issue of voluntary euthanasia.
Back in the United States the Bush administration in the 2000s -- backed by a Republican-led Congress -- vigorously took up the issue to make assisted suicide a federal crime and to challenge the Oregon law, eventually appealing all the way to the Supreme Court. The justices in January 2006 ruled against the federal government, dismissing the argument the U.S. attorney general has the power to block Oregon's then-unique law. Medical groups and patient right advocates supported Oregon, while many religious conservatives backed the Bush administration. Oregon was the first state to allow assisted suicide but is now one of four states to do so: Oregon, Washington, Montana and Georgia.
Body
_ In
“Body,” the history and issues of Gender Identity Disorder are summarized.
Mind
_In “Mind,” the history and issues associated with the use of antidepressants are summarized.
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