If passed by the legislature, California would become the second state in the U.S. to allow doctors to prescribe fatal doses of medication to terminally ill patients with less than six months to live.
Although similar measures have been introduced in the past in California none have been successful. In 1992 California voters defeated proposition 161, which would have allowed physicians to hasten death by actively administrating or prescribing medications for self administration by terminally ill patients.
Commentator Rob Nelson, who supports the bill, talks with Californians about their views on the subject.
- Chronology of Euthanasia and Right-to-Die Events During the 20th Century and into the Millenium, Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization
- “Giving terminally ill the option of assisted suicide backed in poll,” San Francisco Chronicle
- Documents associated with AB 654 in the 2005-2006 Session (Compassionate Choice Act), Official California Legislative Information
- Assemblymember Patty Berg, Assembly District 1, author of the “Compassionate Choice Act.”
- Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act, Hospice Patients Alliance
- Californians Against Assisted Suicide
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