American Public Health Association

When Killing Yourself Isn’t Suicide: Word Games in the Battle of Physician-Assisted Suicide

by APFLI | May 24, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive

The Vermont legislature has fast-tracked a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide, and California may not be far behind. If the legislatures in these states do vote to redefine physician-assisted suicide as a legitimate and legal “medical treatment,” a large part...

The American Public Health Association Passed “Interim” Policy Adopting Euphemisms for Assisted Suicide, Pushes Contraceptive Access, Criticizes Abstinence Education (Dec 2006)

by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Abstinence - Archive, Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive

Scroll down to: LB-06-02 End-of-Life Choices — Urges health educators, policy-makers, journalists and health care providers to recognize that the choice of a mentally competent, terminally ill person to choose to self-administer medications to bring about a peaceful...