Thu Mar 23, 2023 – 10:57 am EDT
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) — The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has proposed a new rule for prescribing drugs via telehealth. The rule states that when a person has not seen a medical practitioner and requires a Schedule II medication or narcotic, that the prescription cannot be prescribed via telehealth and the patient would be required to see the medical practitioner in person before receiving the prescription.
This is an important rule in the assisted suicide debate. The assisted suicide lobby wants to provide lethal assisted suicide drugs to people via telehealth and then ship those drugs to the person via courier.
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A person would then be approved for death by lethal drugs without ever being examined by the medical practitioner and receive the lethal drugs by courier.
Last year Vermont passed assisted suicide expansion bill SB 74, permitting assisted suicide by telehealth. The DEA-proposed policy would prevent doctors in Vermont from approving assisted suicide by telehealth. This is important now that Vermont has become a suicide tourist state by eliminating their residency requirement.
Washington state’s assisted suicide expansion bill HB 1281, if
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