Posted on 07/07/2015 3:41:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai
In a blow to the right-to-die movement, California lawmakers on Tuesday dropped one of the strongest legislative efforts in the U.S. to allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives.
The move came despite pleas involving the case of Brittany Maynard, who moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Oregon, which has a right-to-die law, when she was 29 so she could die on her own terms after a brain cancer diagnosis.
Aid-in-dying advocates had hoped the nationally publicized case would prompt a wave of new right-to-die laws. But no state has passed such legislation this year, with efforts defeated or stalling in Colorado, Maine, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and elsewhere.
The authors of the California legislation that would allow doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs lacked enough support to get through committees this year amid fierce religious opposition. …
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The MSM always claims that California is the future, that what’s happening in California is the inevitable future for the rest of America.
Will they be saying that this is the end of “right-to-die” ?
Oh, they never give up. They’ll pass it next year. Or get a court to order it. Then it’ll be settled law, carved in stone since the dawn of creation.
Msm also say we should be as enlightened as Europe except when europe passes something they don’t like.
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