Assisted-death crowd is still at it Monday, April 26, 2021 | Charlie Butts (OneNewsNow.com) Spanish And organization that calls assisted suicide bills "dangerous and discriminatory" asserts the movement to see such measures on the books is still very much alive. As Vermont is attempting to loosen its state laws and make legal suicide even easier, Matt Valliere of the Patients Rights Action Fund recalls that 26 state legislatures were considering assisted-death measures at one point in recent years, and a few of those survived. He says proponents of such measures have since gotten more strategic. "We've defeated bills across the country to either legalize or expand assisted suicide this year already [in] Arizona, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, North Dakota, [and] Washington state, where they were trying to do an expansion bill," Valliere reports.