Joke Oregon Assisted Suicide Report Published

Wesley J. Smith: One of the great propaganda coups of the assisted suicide movement was making people believe that the Oregon annual reports about assisted suicide were meaningful or informative. But, for example:

• They are based almost solely on self reporting by death doctors, who are about as likely to tell the state that they broke the law as they are to tell the IRS they cheated on their taxes;
• The Oregon Health Authority has no authority or budget to investigate abuses or violations–even if a doctor did self confess. All they can do is refer to the physician’s licensing board.
• The documentation is destroyed after the report is published so there is no independent way to check.
• Over the years, the reports have grown increasingly sparse–seemingly for political impact. For example, in the first few years, it would report how long the death doctor knew the patient who died by assisted suicide and it was often two weeks or even less, meaning that assisted suicide practice was sometimes mere Kevorkianism. Once opponents began hitting that button, the information ceased being publicized in a truly accessible manner.