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Article: Washington State's Assisted Suicide Law In Effect.
- Article from:
- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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As Washington state's physician-assisted suicide law went into effect March 5, pro-lifers urged doctors and hospitals to refuse to help people kill themselves. Although the law allows doctors to prescribe lethal doses of painkillers to patients, many have already stated they will not do so, according to the Associated Press (AP).
"We are urging people to write to hospitals and ask their doctors to refuse to participate," Dan Kennedy, CEO of Human Life of Washington, told NRL News. "Doctors and medical institutions should advocate for their patients, not assist in killing them. Institutions that refuse to permit the killing of their patients should be applauded ...