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Article: Pro-Euthanasia Group Again Promoting Assisted Suicide in 2008 Washington State Ballot Initiative.(Compassion and Choices)
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- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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"Compassion & Choices," the major organization leading efforts to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the United States, is targeting the state of Washington again in 2008. With the help of popular former governor Booth Gardner and a well-funded campaign, the organization is even now attempting to gather the signatures needed to place an initiative on the ballot. If the group can gather 225,000 signatures by July, the proposal will be voted on the Election Day ballot in 2008.
Compassion & Choices is the product of a 2005 merger of "Compassion in Dying" and "End of Life Choices." End-of-Life Choices started out as Derek Humphry's Hemlock Society.
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