Matt Vallière's guest appearances

Matt Vallière

Life, Liberty, and Law

Catholics Across the Aisle

Louis Brown

Gracy Olmstead

Clemente Aguirre

Benjamin Watson

Charlie Camosy

David French

Ashley Feasley

Kathryn Jean Lopez

John Roberts

Chuck Schumer

Leon Kass

Ernest Hemingway

Katie Glenn

Katy Faust

David Prentice

OwlTail

In this latest episode of Catholics Across the Aisle, FCCB Executive Director Michael Sheedy talks with Matt Vallière of the Patients Rights Action Fund (PRAF), a national organization that works to ensure patients receive the best possible end-of-life care and, in doing so, opposes legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia. In this informative episode, Vallière counters the myth that assisted suicide has strong public support. Once the facts are known and the implications of public policies legalizing assisted suicide are realized, public support dramatically drops off. “This is not a right/left issue. This is not a religious/secular issue. This is a human issue,” says Vallière.  Related resources are available on several websites including the FCCB’s. See also praf.org or patientsrightsaction.org, dredf.org and notdeadyet.org. Listen to the episode online or on your preferred podcast streaming platform.

In this latest episode of Catholics Across the Aisle, FCCB Executive Director Michael Sheedy talks with Matt Vallière of the Patients Rights Action Fund (PRAF), a national organization that works to ensure patients receive the best possible end-of-life care and, in doing so, opposes legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia. In this informative episode, Vallière counters the myth that assisted suicide has strong public support. Once the facts are known and the implications of public policies legalizing assisted suicide are realized, public support dramatically drops off. “This is not a right/left issue. This is not a religious/secular issue. This is a human issue,” says Vallière.  Related resources are available on several websites including the <a href="https://www.flaccb.org/end-of-life-care" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FCCB’s</a>. See also <a href="https://patientsrightsaction.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">praf.org or patientsrightsaction.org</a>, <a href="https://dredf.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">dredf.org</a> and <a href="https://notdeadyet.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">notdeadyet.org</a>. <a href="https://catholicsacrosstheaisle.buzzsprout.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen to the episode online or on your preferred podcast streaming platform.</a>

Assisted Suicide Myths: Interview with Matt Vallière of the Patients Rights Action Fund

One person dies of suicide every eleven minutes in our country. Suicide is the second leading cause of death for Americans between 10 and 34 years of age. The fight against suicide is in many ways, the rallying cry of the next generation.  While the broad consensus to fight suicide across society has been extolled from almost all corners, suicide by physician is less often understood to be the tragedy that it is. Indeed, the scourge of suicide by physician is infecting American healthcare and culture and reversing the age-old understanding of the physician as a healer. Nihilistic but powerful activists, tacitly in league with monied insurance interests, promote suicide by physician as an antidote to the uncertainty that can come from disability, increasing age, and other forms of vulnerability.  Matt Vallière, Executive Director of the Patients Rights Action Fund, joins Tom Shakely and Noah Brandt to talk about what patients truly deserve and how to make better choices in uncertain times. Patients Rights Action Fund https://patientsrightsaction.org We Urgently Need Federal Triage Protocols That Ethically and Legally Ensure Equal Access to Care https://www.newsweek.com/we-urgently-need-federal-triage-protocols-that-ethically-legally-ensure-equal-access-care-1498163 Standing against assisted suicide  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/standing-against-assisted-suicide

One person dies of suicide every eleven minutes in our country. Suicide is the second leading cause of death for Americans between 10 and 34 years of age. The fight against suicide is in many ways, the rallying cry of the next generation.  While the broad consensus to fight suicide across society has been extolled from almost all corners, suicide by physician is less often understood to be the tragedy that it is. Indeed, the scourge of suicide by physician is infecting American healthcare and culture and reversing the age-old understanding of the physician as a healer. Nihilistic but powerful activists, tacitly in league with monied insurance interests, promote suicide by physician as an antidote to the uncertainty that can come from disability, increasing age, and other forms of vulnerability.  Matt Vallière, Executive Director of the <a href="https://patientsrightsaction.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patients Rights Action Fund</a>, joins Tom Shakely and Noah Brandt to talk about what patients truly deserve and how to make better choices in uncertain times. <a href="https://patientsrightsaction.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patients Rights Action Fund</a> <a href="https://patientsrightsaction.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://patientsrightsaction.org</a> <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/we-urgently-need-federal-triage-protocols-that-ethically-legally-ensure-equal-access-care-1498163" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">We Urgently Need Federal Triage Protocols That Ethically and Legally Ensure Equal Access to Care</a> <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/we-urgently-need-federal-triage-protocols-that-ethically-legally-ensure-equal-access-care-1498163" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.newsweek.com/we-urgently-need-federal-triage-protocols-that-ethically-legally-ensure-equal-access-care-1498163</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/standing-against-assisted-suicide" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Standing against assisted suicide</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/standing-against-assisted-suicide" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/standing-against-assisted-suicide</a>

Matt Vallière on the Patients Rights Action Fund, suicide by physician, and better choices