Group Warns D.C. Death with Dignity Act Opponents Not to Try to Repeal Law Again

Compassion & Choices praised Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton for her vow today to prevent congressional opponents of Washington, D.C.’s Death with Dignity Act from repealing the law this year, as she did last year.  The DCDWDA gives mentally capable, terminally ill adults with six months or less to live the option to get a doctor’s prescription for medication they can decide to take to die peacefully in their sleep if their suffering becomes unbearable. Rep. Brad Wenstrup (Ohio), who authored a House concurrent resolution condemning medical aid in dying in 2017, said two weeks ago: “we were unable to put language repealing the D.C…law in to recent spending legislation, but I am hopeful that we will be able to do so in next year’s legislation [for fiscal year 2019 that starts Oct. 1, 2018].” Last year, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an appropriations bill, H.R. 3354, with…

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