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California Senate Approves Assisted Suicide Bill

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A controversial bill that would allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients is headed to the state Assembly. The bill passed the State Senate Thursday after a powerful doctor group, the California Medical Association, dropped its 30-year opposition to physician-assisted suicide.

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