Source: Sacramento Bee
By Marcos Breton
Sometimes you find yourself supporting a lost cause and fighting against friends from the wrong side of public opinion.
That’s me on the issue of assisted suicide in California, which is a pen stroke away from being signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown after being approved by both houses of the state Legislature.
Source: The Sacramento Bee
The stubborn push to legalize assisted suicide in California persists. It has been blocked in committees at the Capitol, but supporters have a liberal state on their side and a special legislative session at their disposal.
Here is where they make their move. Here is where they bypass pesky legislators who question the ethics of whether doctors should be allowed to kill people or not.
Source: The Orange County Register
By: Joseph Perkins
The (California) state Senate last week approved the so-called End of Life Act, which would allow the terminally ill to obtain lethal medications with a doctor’s prescription.
The death-on-demand law is co-authored by Sens. Lois Wolk and Bill Monning, with the tacit blessing of the California Medical Association, which previously opposed physician-assisted suicide, but now is officially “neutral” on the issue.
Wolk insists that the End of Life Act “is a compassionate addition to the existing continuum of care that may be used by modern medicine at the end of life.” Monning maintains that the legislation will allow those with terminal diseases “the autonomy to approach death on their own terms.”