Key Calif. Legislative Panel OKs Assisted-Suicide Bill
The controversial measure, which would allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminal patients, failed in the legislature two months ago amid Catholic Church opposition. Its next step is consideration by the state assembly's finance committee.
Reuters:
California Assisted Suicide Bill Advances In Special Session
A controversial bill to allow physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients in California passed a key legislative committee on Tuesday, after failing in the legislature earlier this summer amid opposition from the Catholic Church. The measure, which passed 10-3, next goes to the assembly finance committee. (Bernstein, 9/1)
The San Francisco Chronicle:
Aid-In-Dying Bill Clears Special Session Committee
In a room filled with the pleas of the dying, California lawmakers approved a bill that would allow doctors to prescribe lethal prescriptions to terminal patients wanting to hasten their own deaths. The controversial legislation passed 10-2 in an Assembly special session committee on health on Tuesday, nearly two months after the issue appeared done for the year. The bill now heads to a special session committee on finance. (Gutierrez, 9/1)
Los Angeles Times:
Key Assembly Panel Approves Aid-In-Dying Bill For California
A bill allowing physicians in California to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to hasten the death of the terminally ill passed a key milestone Tuesday when it was approved by its first committee in the state Assembly. A similar bill had previously stalled during the regular session in the Assembly Health Committee, but the proposal was revived when Gov. Jerry Brown called a special session with a different committee membership that was supportive of the bill. (McGreevy, 9/1)