Cenk Uygur
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California Assisted Suicide Bill Awaits Governor’s Signature
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September 19, 2015
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4:31Now Playing"Back in June, California Gov. Jerry Brown called a special session of the legislature to deal with highway funding and health care financing. That special session is now over, and no agreement was reached on either of those things. But that's no reason to waste a special session, and legislators did manage to pass bills on drone regulation, medical marijuana, climate change, oil spills, a Los Angeles County transit tax, family leave, racial profiling, and several other things.
They also took advantage of the fact that committee assignments are different during special sessions to resurrect an aid-in-dying bill that had failed earlier in the year:
The End of Life Option Act, which passed in the state Assembly Wednesday, would allow patients to seek aid-in-dying options so long as they are given six months or less to live by two doctors, submit a written request and two oral requests at least 15 days apart and possess the mental capacity to make their own health care decisions.
If you pass these hurdles, you'll get a prescription for a lethal dose of sedatives. You can then decide for yourself if and when you ever use them. The California bill, which is modeled on a similar law in Oregon, sunsets after 10 years and includes a requirement that doctors speak to the patient privately. Will these safeguards be enough to persuade Brown to sign it?"*
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Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss. Should Jerry Brown sign The End of Life Option Act? Tell us what you think in the comments.
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