AMA Legislative Body To Consider Reversing Its Opposition to Assisted Suicide 

The organization could soon change its position that ‘physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer.’

AP/Rich Pedroncelli, file
Supporters of a measure to allow terminally ill people to end their own lives march at the capitol at Sacramento, California, September 24, 2015. AP/Rich Pedroncelli, file

The future of assisted suicide in America is in the air as the nation’s largest physician’s association considers reversing its opposition to euthanasia. 

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