Faced with a terminal diagnosis, Connectiut residents deserve the full range end-of-life care options, including medical aid in dying. Medical aid in dying allows terminally ill adults to get a prescription they can take to end their life peacefully.
Faced with a terminal diagnosis, people in your state deserve the full range end-of-life care options, including medical aid in dying. Medical aid in dying allows terminally ill adults to get a prescription they can take to end their life peacefully.
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75% of Connecticut voters feel that allowing doctors to legally prescribe lethal drugs to help terminally ill patients end their own lives should be an end-of-life option in the state. See more polling data.
In their first 2022 action to release legislation, committee gives bipartisan support for compassionate end-of-life option In their first action to release legislation of the 2022 session, the Connecticut General Assembly’s Public Health Committee today gave a bipartisan vote of 22-9 to support a bill that would give terminally ill adults the option of medical…
Nueva Encuesta Muestra que los Votantes de NE son 5 veces Más Probables de Votar por Candidatos(a) que Apoyan Propuesta de Ayuda Médica para Morir Compassion & Choices Action Network lanzó hoy, vídeos que muestran a seis residentes de Connecticut que murieron en agonía o que vieron morir a sus seres queridos. Cuatro de ellos…
New Poll Shows NE Voters Are 5+ Times More Likely to Vote for Candidates that Support Medical Aid-in-Dying Legislation Compassion & Choices Action Network today released videos featuring six Connecticut residents who died in agony or watched their loved ones die that way, four of whom will testify Wednesday before the Public Health Committee to…
“We thank Representative Jonathan Steinberg for his leadership on this bill and the members of the Public Health Committee for their historic bipartisan 24-9 vote in support of this legislation,” said Tim Appleton, Connecticut campaign director for Compassion & Choices. “We also thank the leadership for their efforts to bring this before both chambers for…
(Hartford, Connecticut – 13 de abril del 2021) Compassion & Choices publicó hoy un video de Dolores Huerta, legendaria líder de los derechos civiles, respaldando la medida de ley Ayuda Médica para Morir de Connecticut (HB 6425), misma que el Comité de Salud Pública aprobó abrumadoramente el mes pasado, en una votación bipartidista de 24…
(Hartford, CT) Compassion & Choices today released a video of legendary civil rights leader Dolores Huerta endorsing Connecticut’s medical aid-in-dying bill (HB 6425) that the Public Health Committee overwhelmingly approved last month in a bipartisan 24-9 vote for a House floor vote. “I watched my mother die in agony from breast cancer,” says the 91-year-old…
Supporters of a bill that would allow terminally ill, mentally capable patients to have the option of medical aid in dying to gently end unbearable suffering today released the first in a series of six-word videos on social media, sharing their reasons for backing the legislation. The medical aid-in-dying bill (HB 6425) is now on…
Connecticut newspapers have published a flurry of opinion pieces endorsing the state’s medical aid-in-dying bill (HB 6425) before and after the Public Health Committee hearing on the bill on Feb. 26 and the committee’s approval of the bipartisan legislation on March 5 for a House floor vote. Below are links and excerpts of each one…
(Hartford) Advocates for expanding and improving end-of-life care options praised the Connecticut Public Health Committee for approving in a bipartisan 24-9 vote today a bill for House and Senate floor action that would give terminally ill state residents the option of medical aid in dying for the first time ever. The bill has been introduced…
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