Maine's bill would allow doctors to prescribe terminally ill people a fatal dose of medication.
The bill declares that obtaining or administering life-ending medication is not suicide under state law, thereby legalizing the practice often called medically assisted suicide.
VanWormer, whose breast cancer spread to her bones, had pushed for such a bill in 2015 — two years before she died in 2017. Montana doesn't have a specific law on the books, but the state Supreme Court ruled in 2009 that doctors could use a patient's request for life-ending medication as a defense against criminal charges.
The bill's Democratic sponsor said the latest language addresses criticism of past efforts that have failed in Maine.
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