Doctor-Assisted Suicide Bill Rejected in Senate
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From Times wire reports
HAWAII
The state Senate rejected a House-passed bill to have Hawaii join Oregon as the only states allowing physician-assisted suicides.
The “death with dignity” measure supported by Gov. Ben Cayetano was modeled after the Oregon law approved in 1997.
The measure would have allowed competent, terminally ill adults to obtain a lethal dose of prescription drugs from a doctor to end their lives.
The bill was approved April 7 by the House. The Senate voted, 11 to 14, to kill it.
Oregon’s law was approved by voters in 1994 and 1997.
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