Editor’s note. This appeared on the blog of Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition at http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2011/02/another-bill-to-legalize-assisted.html.

House Bill HB 513 FN was introduced by Representative Charles Weed, Representative Parkhurst, and Representative Vaillancourt.

The bill is slightly amended from the bill that was defeated in New Hampshire in January 2010 by a vote of 242 to 113. Once again, the bill is an "Oregon style" bill that claims to have tight safeguards, where in fact the Act is full of illusions.

The 2010 New Hampshire bill was a recipe for elder abuse. The current bill has similar problems.

The sponsors of the bill have pushed it into the Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs committee rather than the Judiciary committee. The suicide lobby is consistently pushing their bills as health care bills rather than amendments to criminal law. The suicide lobby is convinced that politicians are more likely to accept assisted suicide if it is defined within the medical model rather than a legal model.

Assisted suicide legalization bills have now been introduced in Montana, Hawaii, and New Hampshire with a bill being promised to be introduced in Vermont soon.