California Lawmaker Withdraws Bill to Expand Assisted Suicide Law

Legislation that would have vastly expanded California’s assisted suicide law failed to gather enough support among legislators and was withdrawn April 18. The bill would have catapulted the state’s current end-of-life law into the most expansive in the nation, allowing anyone—including non-residents—to request life-ending drugs if they suffered from a “grievous and irremediable medical condition.” Current California law only allows patients to qualify if they have six months to live. The bill’s author, Sen. Catherine Blakespear, withdrew the legislation “because it did not have any support in the Senate Health Committee, where it was scheduled to receive its first hearing,” spokesman Andrew LaMar told The Epoch Times Friday....