If
Ballot Measure 16 withstands all court challenges, Oregon will go beyond the precedent set by the Netherlands, where doctors may assist death with impunity (under guidelines) but without explicit legal sanction.
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.
Ballot Measure 16 allows terminally ill adults to obtain prescriptions for lethal drugs.