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Compassion & Choices
California Campaign Director for Compassion & Choices, a nonprofit which advocates for greater access to assisted suicide
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Toni Broaddus
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FROM Toni Broaddus
Which Way, L.A.?
Is California Ready for Assisted Death? Over the last decade supporters of right-to-die laws have proposed a series of bills, all of which were emphatically opposed by the powerful, statewide doctors association Now a new bill is stalled in the state Senate, but this time it might have a chance. The California Medical Association dropped its opposition to SB 128 which would allow doctors to provide terminally ill patients drugs that would help them hasten their death. That’s not to say the Association is in favor of this right to die bill.
Which Way, L.A.?
Do Californians Have the Right to Die? In California, assisted suicide is a felony crime. So, when 29-year-old Brittany Maynard was diagnosed with terminal cancer, she moved to Oregon where it's legal. Before she died, she made her case public with videos that went viral, advocating that the so-called "the right to die" be made legal in California. That has reinvigorated a movement and produced the End of Life bill in the State Senate.
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