Category: Ethics
The measure permits the terminally ill to request and self-administer lethal medications prescribed by a physician.
Seattle Children’s Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics has posted a webcast of its forum on the ethics of growth attenuation in children with profound disabilities that was held last Friday, Jan. 23rd. This issue came to the public’s attention in 2006, when doctors from Seattle Children’s reported in the journal Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine the case [...]
The “Ashley” case will be discussed in an open forum sponsored by Seattle Children’s Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics on Friday, Jan. 23. In 2006, doctors from Seattle Children’s reported in the journal Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine the case of a six-year old girl with profound disabilities whose parents asked doctors to [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) does a poor job tracking the financial conflicts of interests researchers who test drugs and medical devices on human subjects, according to an investigation by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Service (DHHS).
A conference held this July in Seattle on the ethics of genetic testing of newborns and children is now available online at UWTV’s website. The 2008 Pediatric Bioethics Conference brought together some of the nation’s top ethicists to talk about the controversies involved in testing newborns and children for genetic conditions even when there might [...]
Today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer features two op-ed piece taking opposing sides on Initiative 1000. If passed, the measure, which is on this Nov. 4 ballot, would allow physicians to write prescriptions for a lethal dose of medication for terminally ill adults who wish to take their own lives.
Former Washington State Governor John Spellman disagrees with two other former Washington governors, Booth Gardner and Daniel Evans, on Initiative 1000, the measure on this November’s ballot that would allow physicians to prescribe a lethal dose of medications to terminally ill adults who wish to end their own lives.
Both Seattle papers today have run features on Initiative 1000, the November ballot measure that would allow terminally ill adults who wish to end their own lives to obtain lethal prescriptions from physicians. One article looks at the role religious groups are playing in the Washington debate; the other at the impact a similar “Death [...]
Two op-ed writers take opposite stands on Initiative 1000, the Death with Dignity Act, which will be before voters this November.
In a study that will likely be cited by both sides in the debate over Initiative 1000, the Death with Dignity Act, which is on this November’s ballot in Washington State, researchers found that most Oregonians asking for lethal prescriptions to end their lives under Oregon’s 1994 law that allows physician-assisted suicide are not depressed. [...]
The Seattle Times has run a two-article series on the debate over Initiative 1000, which, if passed by voters this Nov. 4, will allow doctors to write prescriptions for a lethal dose of medication to competent adults with a terminal illnesses so they can end their lives if they wish.
This November Washingtonian state voters will vote on whether to allow terminally ill adults to obtain a prescription for a lethal dose of medications to end their lives. Supporters of the ”Death with Dignity” initiative, designated I-1000, say the measure will give the terminally ill some control over how they die. But opponents say passage of initiative [...]
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