(17:41) SACRAMENTO – A nationwide precedent was set today when the California Medical Association reversed its long opposition to California Senate Bill 128, the End Of Life Option Act. The bill, which was co-authored by local Senator Bill Monning, is modeled after laws in Oregon, Vermont and Washington State that allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of a pharmaceutical drug to patients who have less than 6 months left to live, if they wish to end their lives sooner. The CMA president said of the decision: “We believe it is up to the individual physician, and their patient, to decide voluntarily whether the End of Life Option Act is something in which they wish to engage.” (S.S.)
