Vote to pass a bill that prohibits physician-assisted suicide.
Highlights:
Prohibits an individual from aiding or soliciting another individual in committing suicide, including physician-assisted suicide (Sec. 1).
Defines “physician-assisted suicide” as any act by a physician of purposely aiding or soliciting another individual to end the individual’s life, including prescribing a drug, compound, or substance, providing a medical procedure, or directly or indirectly participating in an act with the purpose of aiding or soliciting suicide (Sec. 1).
Specifies that receiving the consent of the individual seeking assisted suicide does not exempt the individual assisting in the suicide from prosecution (Sec. 1).
Exempts end-of-life care in which a dying individual receives pain-relieving medication that may incidentally hasten death from the provisions of this bill (Sec. 1).