California Bill Looks To Expand Assisted Suicide Beyond Terminal Illnesses

Dubbed by critics as the ‘most extreme’ expansion effort in America, the bill’s backers say it would give patients greater medical autonomy.

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Non-residents of Vermont account for nearly 25 percent of the state's reported assisted deaths from May 2023 through June 2024. Jsme MILA via Pexels.com

As efforts to expand physician-assisted death ramp up across the country, California lawmakers will consider a measure to expand access to the procedures for dementia patients, add new ways drugs can be taken, and open access to out-of-state residents. 

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