By a vote of 59 percent to 41 percent on November 4, 2008, Washington State voters endorsed a ballot initiative to legalize physician-assisted suicide (PAS). If the final outcome was never much in doubt, the margin of victory was surprising. In 1991, an initiative in favor of euthanasia had been defeated in Washington. But this time Washington’s proponents shifted to PAS. The (...)
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Doctors without Borders
WASHINGTON STATE'S NEW PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE LAW
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