03-02-2017 17:48 via thestranger.com

Neil Gorsuch Is Against Death with Dignity

by Katie HerzogSupreme Court Judge nominee Neil Gorsuch 10th U.S. Circuit Court of AppealsWashington is just one of six states that has enacted a Death with Dignity law, the statute that allows physicians to prescribe life-ending medications to terminally ill patients. It’s not a procedure that's often used: Virginia Mason oncologist Thomas Malpass told me that Washington voters approved the Death with Dignity Act in 2008, but few of his patients have even inquired about it, and less than
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