by Kim Schwartz | Jun 14, 2023 | Assistance, Denial of Treatment, Euthanasia, Issues, Legislation, Media, News, Press Releases
Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill Wednesday improving protections for hospital patients and reforming the deadly Texas 10-Day Rule. Pro-Life Texans celebrate this great step forward yet recognize the work ahead to repeal the provisions of state law that still allow...
by Texas Right to Life | Jun 9, 2023 | Assistance, Bioethics, Denial of Treatment, Euthanasia, Issues, Legislation, News
UPDATE: Texas lawmakers passed a bill in 2023 that extends the countdown from 10 days to 25 days and provides other tools to help patients facing this deadly law. Under current Texas law, the Texas Advance Directives Act (TADA, Chapter 166.046 of the Texas Health and...
by Ashley Solano | Apr 26, 2023 | Assisted Suicide, Denial of Treatment, Euthanasia, Healthcare, Issues, Legislation, News
Since the legalization of Medical Aid in Dying (MAID), Canada has been all over the headlines. Through the MAID program over 31,000 people have died. Advocates of the legalization of MAID assured that the program would be used in rare cases, confined to terminally ill...
by Ashley Solano | Mar 22, 2023 | Assisted Suicide, Denial of Treatment, Euthanasia, Issues, News
The odds are that, like a large segment of our population, you have never heard of Medical Aid in Dying (MAID). What exactly is it? Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) was legalized in Canada in 2016, and is the process through which a doctor or nurse practitioner assists an...
by Miranda Willborg | Feb 7, 2023 | Assistance, Bioethics, Denial of Treatment, Euthanasia, Issues, Legislation, News
(This is the third article of our brain death series. Make sure to read Article 1 and Article 2, and be on the lookout for the next article in the series!) On paper, the concept of brain death seems relatively simple: apply a legal definition of brain death to a...
by Ashley Solano | Jan 31, 2023 | Assistance, Bioethics, Denial of Treatment, Euthanasia, Issues, News
(This is the second article of our brain death series. Make sure to read Article 1: (Is Brain Death a New Way of Defining Death?) and be on the lookout for the next article in the series!) Only a handful of stories have appeared in the mainstream media of the...
