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California Assisted Suicide Bill Temporarily Defeated.
Although it failed to pass during this legislative session, a bill that would legalize assisted suicide in California will be reintroduced in January. A coalition of pro-life and disability rights groups will continue to fight against the bill, which is similar to the law in Oregon that allows doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to patients.
"The bill is still alive," Brian Johnston, NRLC Western director, told NRL News. "We can't let down our guard. The coalition will continue to educate the people of California about the specifics of physician-assisted suicide and the abuses that routinely occur in places where it's legal, such as Oregon and the Netherlands."
Democrat Assembly members Patty Berg and Lloyd Levine introduced Bill 654 in February. The bill provided that a patient determined by a physician to have "a terminal disease, and who has voluntarily expressed his or her wish to die, may make a written request for medication for the purpose of ending his or her life."
Although two committees approved the bill, its supporters could not muster the 41 votes needed to pass the bill on the floor of the Assembly by a July 3 deadline, the Los Angeles Times reported.
On July 2, Berg and Levine declared the bill "inactive." However, they were able to keep the bill alive by gutting and ...
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