WorldNetDaily
By the narrow margin of two votes, a bill has passed the California State Assembly that detractors are saying allows doctors to push patients toward medically assisted suicide.
The bill, AB 2747, would change the law by enabling doctors to first declare a patient as having less than a year to live, then requiring the doctor to provide the patient with a long list of end-of-life options, including a last-moments option that looks suspiciously like euthanasia.
Critics of the bill, which was advanced yesterday, point to a provision that adds “palliative sedation” and VSED (voluntary stopping of eating and drinking) to a patient’s end-of-life options, extreme measures that have been previously reserved for patients within a few hours to a few days of death.
If the bill becomes law, critics say, a doctor could pronounce a patient within a year of death, encourage him to consider complete (sometimes irreversible) sedation, then proceed with VSED until the patient, unconscious and unaware, starved and dehydrated to death – in effect, physician-assisted suicide for anyone deemed “within a year of death”…
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