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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.
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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