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Groups: Calif. Bills 'Squash' Moral Values, Religious Freedom

“AB 2747 is an unnecessary bill because it codifies into law practices that are already regulated by medical bodies,” Schadenberg wrote in his personal blog before the bill’s signing. “It also defines ‘palliative care’ in terminology that is too broad. Finally, it continues to make terminal sedation and dehydration a medical act for people who are not yet dying, who would otherwise not be considered for such an act.”

Schadenberg encouraged those who might overlook the bill as a local issue not to.

“We need to be concerned if AB 2747 passes in California because this new strategy is sure to be deployed everywhere,” he wrote.

AB 2747 was sponsored by Compassion & Choices, the new name of the pro-euthanasia Hemlock Society.

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