Senate Votes to Bar Funds for Suicides
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Senate passed a bill to preemptively bar the federal government from financing physician-assisted suicides. The vote was 99-0. The same measure cleared the House last week by a 398-16 vote. President Clinton is expected to sign it. Federal programs such as Medicare and Medicaid are already prohibited from funding assisted suicide. But sponsors said it was necessary to act before the Supreme Court rules on several challenges to laws against assisted suicide.
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