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Implementing California's Law on Assisted Dying
Author(s) -
Mishra Ruchika
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1002/hast.682
Subject(s) - law , legislature , mandate , governor , death with dignity , state law , dignity , session (web analytics) , assisted suicide , state (computer science) , state legislature , political science , business , engineering , statute , advertising , computer science , algorithm , aerospace engineering
Abstract On October 5, 2015, Governor Jerry Brown approved bill ABX2 15, the End of Life Option Act, making California the fifth state in the country to allow physician‐assisted dying. The law was modeled after Oregon's 1997 Death with Dignity Act. When the legislative special session ended on March 10, 2016, California health care providers had only ninety days to respond to the state mandate before the law would take effect, on June 9, 2016. Experience with the law so far suggests several challenges with implementation.