Health Care & Hospital Law,
Government
Apr. 15, 2022
Patients says doctors should be able to help them end their lives
The law, SB380, also known as the California End of Life Option Act, “requires the patient to self-administer the medication,” Catherine M. Cabalo of Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane & Conway said. ‘It prohibits any assistance with ingestion.”
Terminally ill patients and their doctors asked a U.S. judge on Thursday to declare that the state law prohibiting physicians from aiding suicides discriminates against those unable to take their own life-ending medication.
After the hearing on the merits of the arguments, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria is to determine whether the requested modification fundamentally alters the nature of the statute.
“The ma...
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