(Source: KHI - Kansas Health Institute) Fresh off a political triumph in California, the nation's chief advocacy group for physician-assisted suicide laws is mobilizing for many more battles on behalf of terminally ill patients. Since Gov. Jerry Brown signed California's end-of-life options bill last month, a new chapter is starting for Compassion & Choices, a Denver-based nonprofit that led the campaign for the measure and has pushed for such laws for nearly 19 years. California is the fifth state, and largest by far, to allow physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to patients who want to end their lives in their last stages of terminal illnesses. Aid-in-dying bills were introduced...
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