tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35364441347992206942024-03-26T08:36:19.972-07:00MissouriA non-profit corporation opposed to assisted suicide, euthanasia and other forms of imposed death, worldwideUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536444134799220694.post-34775910568030299582024-03-20T22:54:00.000-07:002024-03-20T22:54:53.419-07:00Florida US Senator Marco Rubio and Missouri US Senator Josh Hawley, Question Pfizer's Position on Medically Assisted Suicide<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #011936; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-transform: uppercase;">PRESS RELEASE 02/28/24 </span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2151280804025495730" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 470px;"><div><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="800" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4W6x_JkPxPYerMm-YyKWFHaIFrV3JvB0DLqh3an99ONBgqXHGhGQCgZg87SC5KsHr3ypj5V4rOXA11muErhRsKBBzBDu4HJEuo6zvtT07q4tlQ5qitzZzsMRvenRZhL4Di_EgR29jneywKBxbNohyphenhyphenPI4f_4a8x-MrGzjc1XDsa71Q6GSYbssH6XsFTRA/w122-h153/800px-Senator_Rubio_official_portrait.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(157, 184, 78); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" width="122" /></span><span style="color: #011936; font-size: 13.2px;">A recent report exposed Pfizer’s </span><span style="color: #011936; font-size: 13.2px;">assistance to Dying with Dignity Canada </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #011936; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.2px;">(DWDC), raising questions about its stance on assisted suicide. DWDC has pushed to expand the eligibility for “medically assisted death” to children as young as 12 years old. Pfizer’s support for DWDC raises concerns that it is complicit in prematurely ending lives. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #011936; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span></div><div class="et_pb_module et_pb_post_content et_pb_post_content_0_tb_body" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; animation-duration: 0.2s; animation-timing-function: linear; background: 50% 50% / cover no-repeat rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #011936; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) (pictured here) and colleagues (including Missouri US Senator Josh Hawley) sent a letter to Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla regarding Pfizer’s donations to DWDC, and the company’s stance on “medically assisted death.” <span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: inherit;">The practice of ‘medically assisted death’ contradicts Pfizer’s stated purpose of ‘delivering breakthroughs to change patients’ lives.</span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: inherit;">As Pfizer has received millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to develop treatments and conduct medical research, Pfizer must be completely transparent to the federal government, and the American public, about where the company stands on medically assisted death.</span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #011936;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Joining Rubio were Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), J.D. Vance (R-OH), Josh Hawley (R-MO), and Mike Braun (R-IN) and Representatives Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) and Chris Smith (R-NJ).</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #011936; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To read letter, <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/02.28.24_Rubio-Colleagues-Letter-to-Pfizer-re-Medically-Assisted-Suicide-Donations.pdf" style="color: #5b84ed; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">click here</a>.</span></p></div></div>Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314132820263802243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536444134799220694.post-2643865460167425152021-05-21T21:05:00.002-07:002021-06-08T14:34:41.068-07:00Mother Faces First Degree Murder Charge for Euthanasia<p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">KMOV.com Staff </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">For entire article, <a href="https://www.kmov.com/news/mom-strangled-daughter-before-cutting-her-own-throat-in-suicide-pact-st-peters-police-say/article_4a73fc08-b7f7-11eb-a0e9-b7fdcdca844a.html" target="_blank">click here</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">ST. PETERS, Mo. (KMOV.com) -- A St. Charles County woman is charged with murder after investigators say she confessed to killing her daughter before slicing her own throat with a knife. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">On Friday, May 14, Donna Scuderi was in her home in the 200 block of Jody Drive along with her 39-year-old daughter. Her husband, the 39-year-old's father, came home from work and went to the basement to workout, unaware the two were upstairs in the home. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">When he finished, he went to the home's top floor and discovered his daughter in an upstairs bedroom with a plastic bag wrapped around her head. He found his wife in a nearby bathroom unconscious and bleeding. He immediately called 911. <span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Police say the 39-year-old was pronounced dead, but EMS personnel discovered Scuderi was still alive, though suffering from heavy blood loss. She was rushed to a hospital for treatment, and officers began attempting to piece together what happened. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to court documents, investigators found a black cord wrapped around the daughter's neck and the bag, and several prescription pill bottles were found in the room. Her father said he never heard any sounds of a struggle, and didn't even know the two were in the home until he went upstairs. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Two days later at the hospital, Scuderi woke up and when asked if she knew why she was at the hospital, she reportedly replied, "euthanasia" before asking how her daughter was and saying "I'm sorry." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">When detectives arrived to speak with her, Scuderi told them she and her daughter had planned to kill themselves, according to the probable cause statement. She said her daughter had been depressed and wanted to die, and so she gave her prescription pills before putting a bag over her head. She reportedly told officers she then used the cord to strangle her daughter to death, but said her daughter was already unconscious before she did so. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The evidence is very clear that the victim was alive but unconscious before the ligature was applied, so she was suffocated while alive, therefore she couldn't consciously consent to something," said St. Charles County Prosecutor Tim Lohmar. "And even if she did, we don't have legal lawful assisted suicide in the state of Missouri." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Scuderi then attempted to suffocate herself by putting the bag over her own head, but when that failed, she went downstairs to get a pair of knives. She then returned upstairs and stood in front of the bathroom sink, cut her own throat and passed out. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The first thing that jumps out at you is what sort of mental health crises were two people going through together for something like this happen?" Lohmar said, calling it something he had never seen in his nine years in office. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Scuderi faces a first degree murder charge, and is being held on $200,000 cash-only bond. This is the fourth murder in St. Peters in the last six months, though Lohmar stressed Tuesday none of the four were random.
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