We’re hearing that the bill could come down to only one or two votes.
Far-left activists are attempting to portray assisted suicide as compassionate. But there is nothing compassionate about a doctor, whose job is to heal people and care for them in death, forcing a patient’s death. Even the liberal American Medical Association still holds the position that physician-assisted suicide is “fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer.” And as we are seeing in other states and Canada, ill patients are often goaded into assisted suicide to save money. In California, a patient with cancer was recently denied chemotherapy by her insurance but offered suicide pills for a dollar.
Gov. John Carney, a Democrat, courageously vetoed a nearly-identical bill last year. But he is under enormous pressure from his own party to sign it this time – if it reaches his desk.
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