The ballot measure proposes amending West Virginia's constitution to prohibit physician-assisted death.
Voters in West Virginia will decide whether to enshrine a ban on euthanasia in the state's constitution in November.Lawmakers approved adding the measure to the November 5 ballot in the final hours of the legislative session. House Joint Resolution 28 proposes amending West Virginia's constitution to prohibit any physician or health care provider from participating in the practice of 'medically-assisted suicide, euthanasia or mercy killing.
'The Republicans won't let us vote on it because they know what the outcome will be, just like in every other state,' delegate Mike Pushkin, a Democrat, told WOWK. 'So, instead, they put this meaningless constitutional amendment on that's banning something that's already banned.'Newsweek contacted the lawmakers for comment via email.Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted death in 1997. Nine other states and Washington, D.C.
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