Assisted Suicide Bill in Connecticut Defeated for Third Time
For the third consecutive year, a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to commit suicide with the help of a physician failed to make it out of the state’s Judiciary Committee.

For the third consecutive year, a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to commit suicide with the help of a physician failed to make it out of the state’s Judiciary Committee.

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.

It isn’t politically correct to talk about taking a life by aborting a baby or committing assisted suicide.

Inspired by the case of Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old California woman terminally ill with brain cancer who moved to Oregon to commit suicide legally, two California lawmakers have introduced a bill to permit assisted suicide.
