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Ballot Measure 16

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Ballot Measure 16
A bill in Oregon that legalized physician-assisted suicide with certain restriction. It was narrowly approved—51% of the voters—and has withstood challenges by the federal court. The state of Washington voted on a similar measure—initiative 1000—and approved it with 58% of the voters
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But then in 1994, Ballot Measure 16 passed by a hair, for two reasons.
Letter from Oregon: the state of euthanasia by Doyle, Brian / Commonweal
Catholic church officials and ethicists reacted with alarm to Oregon's new physician-assisted suicide law, the Ballot Measure 16 that passed in the November general election.
Ethicists alarmed at Oregon law: growth of assisted-suicide efforts ... by Gibeau, Dawn / National Catholic Reporter
Ballot Measure 16 allows terminally ill adults to obtain prescriptions for lethal drugs.
Oregon Ballot Measure 16 by The Humanist
 
 
 
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