09-13-2015, 11:17 AM
In an emotionally-charged debate earlier this week, the California State Assembly voted 42-33 to back the bill.
All that remains for the bill - which would allow doctors to give fatal doses of medication to qualified patients with six months or less to live - is for it to be signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown.
The proposed law has been criticized by the Catholic Church and the governor, a Catholic himself, will have to make his decision just days before the Pope visits the US.
I believe that Governor Jerry Moonbeam Brown ^will sign the bill into law. I hope so anyway.
I respect the Catholic church's and the Pope's position, but I think the choice belongs to the able-minded but terminally-ill adults.
All that remains for the bill - which would allow doctors to give fatal doses of medication to qualified patients with six months or less to live - is for it to be signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown.
The proposed law has been criticized by the Catholic Church and the governor, a Catholic himself, will have to make his decision just days before the Pope visits the US.
I believe that Governor Jerry Moonbeam Brown ^will sign the bill into law. I hope so anyway.
I respect the Catholic church's and the Pope's position, but I think the choice belongs to the able-minded but terminally-ill adults.