In 2008, after more than a decade of debate, Washington state voters enacted by a margin of 16% a law to legalize medical aid in dying. A majority of voters supported the initiative in 30 of 39 counties, demonstrating that it had support from both conservatives and liberals. The law is virtually identical to the […] The post A retired palliative medicine physician’s plea: Pass end-of-life options legislation appeared first on Minnesota Reformer.
Dr. Rebecca Thoman, program director of Doctors for Dignity, responds to the Forum editorial "Minnesota lawmakers should kill physician-assisted suicide bills."
Compassion for individuals confronting a terminal illness drove the efforts to legalize physician-assisted suicide, or PAS (also known as medical aid in dying), in Colorado in 2016.
Compassion is agai.