LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF Maine residents could soon vote on a controversial physician-assisted suicide measure. A citizens group has launched a petition to get an assisted death law on a statewide ballot next fall. If proponents gather more than 61,000 valid signatures, Mainers could decide if terminally ill patients have the right to request life-ending […]
BY DANIEL GAITAN | daniel@lifemattersmedia.org California’s controversial physician-assisted suicide law has been ruled unconstitutional by a state judge. Judge Daniel A. Ottolia, of Riverside County Superior Court, on Tuesday overturned the law nearly two years after it took effect, ruling that the state Legislature improperly passed the measure during a special session on health care funding. […]
LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF A new law signed by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert allows terminally ill patients the “right to try” medicinal cannabis. The law, which went into effect this week, allows some dying patients to possess and use marijuana. The measure ties medicinal cannabis to 2015’s Right to Try Act, which allows seriously ill patients to experiment […]
LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF A controversial new Nebraska law will allow terminally ill patients to experiment with drugs not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The so-called “Right to Try” bill, sponsored by conservative state Sen. Robert Hilkemann, will go into effect this summer, making Nebraska the 40th state in the nation with such legislation. Republican […]
BY DANIEL GAITAN | daniel@lifemattersmedia.org The parents of dying British toddler Alfie Evans lost their court appeal Wednesday against a ruling preventing them from traveling to another nation for treatment. The ruling comes amidst high-profile interventions from the Italian government and the Roman Catholic Church, Agence-France Presse reports. Pope Francis has been praying for the child — and […]