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  2. Anna Sophina Hall - Wikipedia

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    Her letter-writing campaign attracted such prominent women as The New York Times columnist Lurana Shelton and co-founder of Volunteers of America and former Salvation Army officer Maud Ballington Booth to the euthanasia cause. As a result of her efforts, the Ohio state legislature came within 54 votes of legalizing the practice in 1906.

  3. Euthanasia in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Over the next 35 years, debates about euthanasia raged in the United States which resulted in an Ohio bill to legalize euthanasia in 1906, a bill that was ultimately defeated. [7] Euthanasia advocacy in the U.S. peaked again during the 1930s and diminished significantly during and after World War II.

  4. Involuntary euthanasia - Wikipedia

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    In 1906, Ohio considered a law to legalize such a form of euthanasia, but it did not make it out of committee. While much of the debate focused on voluntary euthanasia, other calls for involuntary euthanasia were vocalized as well. In 1900, W. Duncan McKim, a New York physician and author published a book titled Heredity and Human Progress ...

  5. Voluntary euthanasia - Wikipedia

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    Voluntary euthanasia is the purposeful ending of another person's life at their request, in order to relieve them of suffering.Voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) have been the focus of intense debate in the 21st century, surrounding the idea of a right to die.

  6. The 14th Amendment was introduced to help racial justice ...

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    And another, the 14th Amendment written by Ohio Congressman John Bingham, established birthright citizenship and was ratified in 1868. But Bingham was nowhere near the first to pitch the idea.

  7. Euthanasia - Wikipedia

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    The first attempt to legalise euthanasia took place in the United States, when Henry Hunt introduced legislation into the General Assembly of Ohio in 1906. [ 45 ] : 614 Hunt did so at the behest of Anna Sophina Hall , a wealthy heiress who was a major figure in the euthanasia movement during the early 20th century in the United States.

  8. Ohio traffic laws: Here's what changed in 2023 and what could ...

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    Ohio’s traffic laws made a pivotal change this year, and some new legislation could call for more change in the new year. In January, Gov. Mike DeWine signed a new distracted driving law , which ...

  9. At Fort Worth’s city-run animal shelters, hundreds of dogs ...

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    Throughout 2020 and 2021 — when the pandemic kept more people home and working remotely — the Fort Worth shelters saw more adoptions and had a live release rate above 90%, with many months ...