....the love of many shall wax cold. Matthew 24:12
"California lawmakers are revising the state's penal code to make advising or helping someone to carry out a physician assisted suicide unprosecutable.
Physician-assisted suicide has been legal in the nation's most populous state since 2015 — it went
into effect in 2016 — but the state Senate amended the penal code to read that while "[a]ny person who deliberately aids, advises, or encourages another to commit suicide is guilty of a felony," anyone "whose actions are compliant with the provisions of the End of Life Option Act (Part 1.85 (commencing with Section 443) of Division 1 of the Health and Safety Code) shall not be prosecuted under this section."
Wesley Smith, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, explained why the changes to the state's penal code should concern residents.
"In other words, if someone — say, a relative due to inherit money, a caregiver tired of the responsibility, an assisted-suicide ideologue, a doctor or nurse, heck anyone for any reason — encourages, advises, pressures, guilts, convinces, cajoles, and/or actively aids a dying person to commit assisted suicide under the California law, the persuader cannot be prosecuted," Smith said in a National Review blog post Wednesday." CP
"California lawmakers are revising the state's penal code to make advising or helping someone to carry out a physician assisted suicide unprosecutable.
Physician-assisted suicide has been legal in the nation's most populous state since 2015 — it went
Wesley Smith, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, explained why the changes to the state's penal code should concern residents.
"In other words, if someone — say, a relative due to inherit money, a caregiver tired of the responsibility, an assisted-suicide ideologue, a doctor or nurse, heck anyone for any reason — encourages, advises, pressures, guilts, convinces, cajoles, and/or actively aids a dying person to commit assisted suicide under the California law, the persuader cannot be prosecuted," Smith said in a National Review blog post Wednesday." CP
