Massachusetts Voters to Consider Physician-Assisted Suicide

Voters in Massachusetts will have the opportunity to allow physician-assisted suicide in the state when they take to the ballots on Nov. 6, according to a Boston Globe report. 

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If the initiative is approved, Massachusetts would be the third state in the U.S., after Oregon and Washington, to allow the measure, according to the report.

The measure would allow patients with less than six months to live to receive a dose of lethal medication from their physicians.

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