Update Archive: 1997

View Table of Contents for Update 7: Volume 11, Number 1 (1997)
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Update 7: Volume 11, Number 1 (January-February 1997)

FDA charges policy to allow experimentation on some patients without consent

IAETF Report: Supreme Court hears oral arguments in right-to-die cases

Protests lodged against MSU’s euthanasia drug patent

Florida judge rules AIDS patient can be assisted to die

Kevorkian: Legal battle and deaths continue

Australia grappling with euthanasia law

Editorial: Risking young lives

Depression seriously undertreated in U.S.

News of Note


Update 8: Volume 11, Number 2 (March-May 1997)

Australian Parliament overturns euthanasia law

Oregon House votes to put Measure 16 back on ballot

Oregon and Michigan doctors change policies related to assisted suicide

U.S. bans federal funding of assisted suicide and euthanasia

IAETF Report: Florida Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Krischer v. McIver

Assisted-suicide advocate says he suffocated his disabled wife

Kevorkian revisited: An update

Commentary: Our lives are important by Robert Salamanca

Dutch euthanasia “guidelines” not enforced

Colombian Constitutional Court Oks euthanasia

IAETF attorney authors new book


Update 9: Volume 11, Number 3 (June-July 1997)

No Constitutional right to assisted suicide: U.S. Supreme Court

No Constitutional right to assisted suicide: Florida Supreme Court

Oregon’s Measure 16 referred back to voters for repeal

Michigan developments: Fieger’s misconduct prompts mistrial and a call to action

Michigan developments: Kevorkian’s unofficial body count keeps rising

Michigan developments: Assisted-suicide petition drive launched

Psychiatrists add to mounting evidence of Dutch plunge down euthanasia’s slippery slope

Euthanasia Cases in the News:Oregon: Dr. James Gallant

Euthanasia Cases in the News:Florida: Dr. Ernesto Pinzon-Reyes

Euthanasia Cases in the News:Canada: Dr. Nancy Morrison

Euthanasia Cases in the News: England: Drs. Michael Irwin & David Moor

 


Update 10: Volume 11, Number 4 (August-October 1997)

Special Report: Oregon takes a closer look at assisted suicide

More about the flaws in Measure 16

Michigan creates its very own nightmare

Twisted values of assisted suicide: A Wesley Smith commentary

HMOs may be skimping on stroke treatment

The ultimate spin on managed care


Update 11: Volume 11, Number 5 (November-December 1997)

Special Report: Oregon’s Death Wish – The Vote and the Aftermath

Introduction
The Vote
The Aftermath
Privatizing Assisted Suicide
DEA Enters the Fray
Pharmacists and Physicians at Odds
PAS, Health Plans, and Cost-Containment
Moving in for the Kill
Minimizing Differences & Exporting Death as Palliative Care
Putting it into Perspective

Michigan Senate Passes Anti-Assisted-Suicide Bill

A Tale of Two Doctors

Latimer Convicted Again, but Sentence Reduced

Seeking the Death of Robert Wendland: A Wesley Smith Commentary

Editor’s Update: Robert Wendland Spared