In the week from January 9 to January 15, 2017:
- Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) pledged to stop the District of Columbia’s Death with Dignity Act from being enacted. Shortly after, Senator James Lankford and Representative Brad Wenstrup introduced a resolution disapproving of the bill. Learn more →
- Assisted dying bills were introduced in Missouri and Mississippi.
District of Columbia
- “Member of Congress plans to block D.C. law to let terminally ill patients end their lives,” Washington Post, 1/9/2017
- “Republican Congress imperils D.C.’s new assisted suicide law,” Washington Times, 1/9/2017
- “Congressman Vows to Block ‘Death With Dignity’ Law in City He Doesn’t Even Represent,” Gizmodo, 1/9/2017
- “DC woman with terminal cancer fights for right to ‘peaceful death’,” WTOP, 1/9/2017
- “Congressman Attempts to Meddle in D.C.’s New Assisted Suicide Law,” Reason.com, 1/10/2017
- “Utahn Pledges To Block D.C.’s ‘Death With Dignity’ Law,” DCist, 1/10/2017
- “Author of DC Death With Dignity bill says Congress should ‘stay out of it’,” WTOP, 1/10/2017
- “Norton Blasts Lankford and Wenstrup for Introducing Bills to Block D.C.’s ‘Death with Dignity Act,’ Violating Local Control Principles by Trampling on D.C. Home Rule,” Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton’s Press Release, 1/12/2016
- “As Promised, Republicans On Capitol Hill Submit Resolutions To Block D.C. Death With Dignity Act,” DCist, 1/12/2017
- “Members of Congress from Ohio, Oklahoma move to block D.C.’s right-to-die law,” Washington Post, 1/12/2017
- “A congressman overreaches on D.C.’s death-with-dignity law,” Washington Post, 1/12/2016
- “Bowser, Mendelson hit GOP lawmakers for impeding D.C. assisted suicide law,” Washington Times, 1/13/2017
California
- “Vacaville Man Accused Of Assisting Mother’s Suicide Not Covered Under End-Of-Life Law,” CBS Sacramento, 1/13/2017
- “Diagnosis leads to life-ending decision,” Redding Record Searchlight, 1/14/2017
Hawaii
- “Dying Cancer Patient Leads Suit Asserting Hawaii Law Allows Medical Aid in Dying,” Damon Tucker: Hawaii News & Information, 1/12/2017
- “Aid in dying movement files suit to push for change to Hawaii law,” Hawaii News Now, 1/12/2017
- “Death And Taxes: Two Certainties For This Year’s Hawaii Legislature,” Honolulu Civil Beat, 1/13/2017
- “An ailing lobbyist wants a law to OK suicide via doctor,” Honolulu Star Advertiser, 1/13/2017
- “Should people be allowed to end their own lives?,” KITV, 1/13/2017 (?)
Elsewhere
- Colorado: “Southwest Health opts out of Colorado’s aid-in-dying law,” The Journal, 1/16/2017
- Maine: “East Millincokett woman’s plan to enact ‘Death with Dignity’ lives on,” WLBZ-NBC, 1/12/2017
- Massachusetts: “Editorial: ‘Death with dignity’ again an issue,” Daily Hampshire Gazette, 1/9/2017
- New York: “New York should legalize medical aid in dying: View,” Lohud, 1/12/2017
- Vermont: “Another View: Death with dignity, if you can afford it,” Brattleboro Reformer, 1/11/2017
Other Stories
- “Bishop Tutu’s Plea Prompts Personal Meditation on Assisted Suicide,” Practical Bioethics, 1/11/2017
- “Physician Aid in Dying Gains Acceptance in the U.S.,” New York Times, 1/16/2017
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