Politics Shift as Lawmakers Embrace Nationwide Support for End-of-Life Choices
WASHINGTON, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The nation\’s leading end-of-life choice advocacy group, Compassion & Choices, praised the Vermont legislature for becoming the first legislative body in the nation to approve death-with-dignity legislation. Gov. Peter Shumlin has vowed to sign the bill into law.
\”This historic legislative victory proves that the aid-in-dying issue is no longer the third rail of politics. In fact, it\’s a winning issue on which Gov. Shumlin campaigned,\” said Compassion & Choices President Barbara Coombs Lee, an ER and ICU nurse and physician assistant who co-authored the nation\’s first Death-with-Dignity law in Oregon and was a senior advisor for the nation\’s second Death-with-Dignity law in Washington state, both approved by ballot initiatives. \”We congratulate Patient Choices Vermont for its leadership of this multi-year campaign. Their success shows aid in dying has become a legislative winner.\”
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