Physician-Assisted Suicide Has Been Legal in California for a Year. How’s it Going? June 8, 2017 General, Public Health 0 California’s End of Life Option Act went into effect on June 9, 2016. The law created a process for dying patients to ask their doctors for a lethal prescription that the patients can then ingest privately, at home. Since then, at least 500 Californians have received life-ending prescriptions, according to newly released data collected by Compassion and Choices, an advocacy group that promotes aid-in-dying laws nationwide. Read More... Comments are closed.
