On February 5, the Senate Committee on Education and Health voted not to move SB359 out of committee, effectively ending a path forward for the Senate medical aid-in-dying bill for this legislative session. Without sufficient votes in the Senate to advance the bill, the House bill (HB886) is also, unfortunately, unlikely to move forward this year.
Virginia residents were recently polled about their support for this compassionate option. Regardless of their political affiliation, religion, age, race and other factors, seven out of 10 Virginians voiced their support. Learn more.
One day before the first hearing ever on Virginia’s Death with Dignity Act Thursday by the Senate Committee on Education and Health, the bill authors, a Virginian with incurable cancer and the end-of-life care advocacy group Compassion & Choices held a Zoom news conference to urge the Legislature to pass the bill. (Journalists can obtain…
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