
Assisted suicide has been resurrected and cleared its next to last hurdle through California’s State Senate Friday with Governor Jerry Brown the last opportunity for opponents to kill the bill.
by Michelle Moons11 Sep 2015, 6:36 PM PST0

Wednesday California’s State Assembly resurrected from the dead and passed an assisted suicide bill. It will now pass to the State Senate, which has previously passed such legislation.
by Michelle Moons9 Sep 2015, 3:10 PM PST0

On Friday, three San Francisco doctors brought a request for a preliminary injunction to allow them to flout state law and help their terminally ill patients commit suicide.
by William Bigelow14 Aug 2015, 3:08 PM PST0

California Senate Bill 128, which allows terminally ill people to end their own lives, has looked like a shoo-in for passage, but suddenly some key southern California legislators may stand in the way.
by William Bigelow7 Jul 2015, 12:45 PM PST0

Assisted suicide legislation in California is in danger of dying itself, as a vote in the State Assembly Health Committee slated for Tuesday was delayed another two weeks.
by Michelle Moons25 Jun 2015, 5:50 AM PST0

The California Medical Association, capitulating to proponents of “physician-assisted suicide,” has become the first medical association in the country to eschew opposing the practice.
by William Bigelow20 May 2015, 12:32 PM PST0

An assisted suicide bill which would allow physicians in California to administer lethal drugs to mentally competent, terminally ill patients to accelerate their deaths, passed the first of two state Senate committee panels on Wednesday. The hearing was an emotional one, and legislators heard starkly opposing views.
by Adelle Nazarian27 Mar 2015, 12:00 AM PST0