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Hundreds of people gave testimony before the Public Health Committee Monday at a hearing on the General Assembly’s aid-in-dying bill that continues to divide doctors, patients, caretakers, lawmakers and faith leaders on the moral merits of allowing doctors to prescribe terminally ill patients medication to expedite death.

Advocates of the proposed Aid in Dying bill made an emotional plea to state legislators in Hartford on Wednesday to approve the legislation, introduced 15 separate times in Connecticut since 1994.

After tearful press conferences from both sides of the medically assisted suicide debate in Hartford on Wednesday, the Connecticut General Assembly Public Health Committee voted to continue drafts of a bill that would legalize the practice in Connecticut.

Advocates of the proposed Aid in Dying bill made an emotional plea to state legislators in Hartford on Wednesday to approve the legislation, introduced 15 separate times in Connecticut since 1994.

The Aid in Dying legislation was introduced, unsuccessfully, 15 times in Connecticut since 1994

One month later, the Partner stands are packed up, the videos and photos taken have been organised and shared, and the discussions and presentations from the…

Rep. Craig Fishbein, a Republican from Wallingford, made a motion to “divide the committee," meaning only senators on the panel could vote.

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A bill that would allow terminally ill adults in Connecticut to request medication to help them die was suddenly derailed Monday by an unusual parliamentary procedure during a committee vote.

A bill that would allow terminally ill adults in Connecticut to request medication to help them die was suddenly derailed Monday by an unusual