AB651 Berg Assisted Suicide - CDR OPPOSES

AB651 Berg Assisted Suicide
[see also AB654]Two bills to legalize physician-assisted suicide are stalled but remain alive. As of this writing, AB 654 (Berg-Levine) is on the Assembly Inactive File[now dead], and its gutted-and-amended clone, AB 651 (Berg-Levine) is in the California Senate, where it has been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee but not scheduled for a hearing. Both bills have missed deadlines for moving forward this year, but they are *not* dead. The authors are speaking out via the press an trying to neutralize the opposition. Opposition from the disability community, including groups like CDR, has been critically important in preventing passage of this dangerous legislation so far. We need to make sure the authors' arguments don't go unchallenged. Many expect that even if the bill fails in the Legislature, supporters will keep trying, possibly as a ballot measure. So the battle over this issue will continue.

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