Bill to Bar Assisted Suicide Clears Senate
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The state Senate passed a new ban on physician-assisted suicide by a 27-8 vote, one day after Dr. Jack Kevorkian was present at another death. The bill marks the strongest move by state legislators to stop the retired pathologist since a temporary law expired in 1994 and since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that state governments may outlaw doctor-assisted suicide.
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