Revived California Right-to-Die Bill Clears First Hurdle in Assembly Committee
In California, Jessica Calefati of the San Jose Mercury News reports, “Two weeks after Democrats revived controversial right-to-die legislation in a special legislative session on health care funding, the measure on Tuesday won bipartisan support and easily cleared an Assembly committee on a 10-3 vote.” If the bill becomes law, California will join Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Vermont in allowing doctors to prescribe life-ending doses of drugs to terminally ill patients.