Read the AP article at http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/2013/05/01/house-passes-aid-dying/9pNOiSEVywpkNhUuNHj6BL/story.html. We will be asking for calls to Senators soon. … [Read more...] about Associated Press Article on the House Passage of S. 77 Points Out That Assisted Suicide Needs the Approval of the Senate to Become Law
Vermont Legislature
VPR Live Stream
Listen to the live stream of the debate now at vpr. All amendments were defeated, and the representatives are engaged in the final debate before voting on the third reading. … [Read more...] about VPR Live Stream
Oregon Style Bill Passed, 80-57. What Will the Senate Do?
This is a sad night for Vermont, but assisted suicide is not the law in Vermont yet. The Senate bill is very different from the one the House will send back to it. If the Senate does not ratify this version of the bill, it will go to a conference committee that could create something acceptable to both sides or kill the whole thing. We will be asking you to call your … [Read more...] about Oregon Style Bill Passed, 80-57. What Will the Senate Do?
The House is now taking a roll call vote on the Donohue amendment. It resembles the Galbraith/Hartwell/Cummings amendment passed by the senate in exempting from prosecution doctors whose patients discuss suicide with them and then use medicine prescribed for the relief of symptoms to commit suicide as well as individuals who are with the patients when they take a lethal … [Read more...] about
Amendments Defeated
Amendments requiring reporting on what happens at the time the poison is ingested and that the death certificate list the true cost of death have been defeated by voice vote, as has a third amendment, whose details I don't remember. An amendment to clarify that a patient whose assisted suicide fails would be not be excluded from insurance coverage of further health care has … [Read more...] about Amendments Defeated