Compassionate Choices Supporters Plan 2006 Vote, Vow Ongoing Fight.SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Supporters of the California Compassionate Choices Act announced today that AB 651 has been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee The U.S. Senate established the Committee on the Judiciary on December 10, 1816, as one of the original 11 standing committees. It is also one of the most powerful committees in Congress; among its wide range of jurisdictions is investigation of federal judicial nominees and oversight of for a hearing in January 2006. The bill's authors vowed to continue their effort to mobilize supporters, educate legislators on the need for the law and a successful vote come January. The authors of Assembly Bill 651, Assembly members Lloyd Levine and Patty Berg
Patricia Jane Berg (February 13, 1918 – September 10, 2006) [1] , have decided to make the measure a two-year bill, meaning it will be acted upon next year rather than this year. "The bill is very much alive, and there's a great deal more work to do. We just need more time," said Rev. John Brooke
John Brooke born (1920) was a significant British historian. Earlier in his career he acted as assistant to Lewis Namier: he continued Namier's work on British politics and parliament in , head of California-based Clergy for Compassionate Choices. "Our faith in God does not require us to prolong needless suffering." "The bill simply gives terminally ill Terminally Ill When a person is not expected to live more than 12 months. Notes: Any gifts given out by the afflicted person at this time may be considered as a dispersion of the estate rather than a gift. people the freedom to choose the circumstances of their final moments of life, and to choose, if they desire, to end needless suffering more quickly," Brooke said. "The bill gives terminally ill, mentally competent adults the option to end their lives in a controlled and clinically sound way," said Dr. Robert V. Brody, clinical professor of medicine at UCSF UCSF University of California at San Francisco . Supporters said the coming months will be used to discredit TO DISCREDIT, practice, evidence. To deprive one of credit or confidence. 2. In general, a party may discredit a witness called by the opposite party, who testifies against him, by proving that his character is such as not to entitle him to credit or the scary but completely groundless arguments of opponents. "The opponents' arguments always overlook the array of safeguards in the bill which make misuse of the process impossible," said Brooke. "By January, legislators will understand that the bill is about freedom and empowerment for terminally ill people." Terminally-ill patient and Compassionate Choices activist Polly Crouch added: "The bill is about individual freedom, I'm not asking for control over anyone's else's death; only my own. This choice should be mine, not the politicians or priests." |
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