Massachusetts Assisted Suicide Bill Gets Early Release From First Committee

Massachusetts Assisted suicide bill gets early release from first committee

By Chris Lisinski, State House News Service Legislation that would authorize physician-assisted suicide in Massachusetts cleared its first committee hurdle, this time more quickly than in the past thanks to a new House rule. House members of the Joint Committee on Public Health on Friday favor

Assisted suicide Bill "would put a price on my head", says peer with a disability

After the assisted suicide Bill narrowly passed Third Reading earlier this month, a peer with a disability has said that, if it were legal, he would have felt “under real pressure” to opt for assisted suicide when he was in intensive care. On Friday 20 June, MPs voted by 314 to 291 in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at Third Reading, amidst growing cross-party concern about the risks the Bill poses to vulnerable people. Th…