{"id":6282,"date":"2015-01-21T15:52:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T14:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/news\/californian-state-senators-lois-wolk-bill-monning-and-others-backed-by-brittany-maynard-family-introduced-the-end-of-life-option-act-modelled-after-the-1997-oregon-d\/"},"modified":"2015-01-21T15:52:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T14:52:53","slug":"californian-state-senators-lois-wolk-bill-monning-and-others-backed-by-brittany-maynard-family-introduced-the-end-of-life-option-act-modelled-after-the-1997-oregon-d","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/news\/californian-state-senators-lois-wolk-bill-monning-and-others-backed-by-brittany-maynard-family-introduced-the-end-of-life-option-act-modelled-after-the-1997-oregon-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Californian     State Senators Lois Wolk, Bill Monning and others, backed by  Brittany    Maynard\u2019 family, introduced the \u2018End of Life Option Act:   modelled   after  the 1997 Oregon Dying with Dignity Act, the Bill would  give a    terminally ill, mentally competent adult resident in  California, the    right to ask and receive from his or her physician a  prescription for a    lethal drug to end his or her suffering."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Californian     State Senators Lois Wolk, Bill Monning and others, backed by  Brittany    Maynard\u2019 family, introduced the \u2018End of Life Option Act:   modelled   after  the 1997 Oregon Dying with Dignity Act, the Bill would  give a    terminally ill, mentally competent adult resident in  California, the    right to ask and receive from his or her physician a  prescription for a    lethal drug to end his or her suffering.<\/p>\n<p>21 January 2015 \/ 4 June 2015 \/ 4 + 11 September 2015 \/ 5 October 2015<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB128&amp;search_keywords=End+of+Life+Options+Act%23%23%23null%23%23%23null%23%23%23null%23%23%23null%23%23%23null\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill SB-128 End of Life (Link to California Legislative Information) <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.compassionandchoices.org\/2015\/06\/04\/california-senate-passes-first-medical-aid-in-dying-bill-in-ca-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">On 4 June 2015, the Californian Senate passed the End of Life Option Act (SB 128) by 23 to 14 votes. The Bill thus moves on to a Commitee of the Californian House of Representatives (Link)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On 2   September 2015, the Public Health and Developmental Services Committee   of the California Assembly approved of the California End of Life Option   Act by 10 : 3 votes, and two days later the Assembly Finance Commitee  by 5 : 3 votes. In a next step, the bill will be voted on by both   houses of the California Legislature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On 11  September, the End of Life Option Act (SB 128) was approved by 23 : 14  votes of the Senators after it was approved by 43 : 34 votes in the  Assembly. The Bill only needs one more step which is the signature of  Governor Jerry Brown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speech   by Debby Ziegler, mother of Brittany Maynard who had to move  from   California to Oregon in order to make use of her right to end her    suffering self-determinedly:<\/p>\n<p> <object><\/object> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On 5 October 2015, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., a Catholic and former Jesuit seminarian, signed the End of Life Option Act. &#8220;I do not know what I would do if I were dying in prolonged and excruciating pain. I am certain, however, that it would be a comfort to be able to consider the options afforded by this bill. And I wouldn&#8217;t deny that right to others.&#8221; he wrote in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/docs\/ABX2_15_Signing_Message.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">signing message<\/a>. Thus, California becomes a further US-State in which terminally ill have freedom of choice to self-determinedly end their suffering with physician\u2019s assessment and prescription of medication. The End of Life Option Act definetely took effect on 9 June 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Californian State Senators Lois Wolk, Bill Monning and others, backed by Brittany Maynard\u2019 family, introduced the \u2018End of Life Option Act: modelled after the 1997 Oregon Dying with Dignity Act, the Bill would give a terminally ill, mentally competent adult resident in California, the right to ask and receive from his or her physician a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-6282","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}