Vermont rewrites law to offer assisted suicide to non-residents

null / Video_Creative / Shutterstock.Boston, Mass., May 3, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA).Republican Gov. Phil Scott of Vermont signed a bill Tuesday allowing non-residents to avail themselves of the state's assisted suicide law.Vermont legalized assisted suicide in 2013, but with this new law became the first state in the nation to change its legislation to allow the life-ending procedure to those living out of state, according to the Associated Press.Oregon stopped enforcing its residency requirement for assisted suicide in 2022 but has not enshrined that provision in law.Earlier this year Vermont reached a settlement with a Connecticut woman who had sued the state over its residency requirement for assisted suicide.According to the Vermont Department of Health, assisted suicide is available for those "suffering from an incurable and irreversible disease" that will end the patient's life within six months.After a doctor determines death is imminent, a patient must make an oral an...

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