A bill that would put Nevada in with California and Oregon as a state with a so-called right-to-die law on the books moved forward in the Legislature.
According to the Nevada Independent, the State Senate voted Tuesday in favor of a bill that gives terminally ill patients the option to end their own lives with the help of a doctor.
Despite the narrow support in the Senate, Gov. Brian Sandoval has said he doesn’t support the idea.
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Currently, patients in Nevada can refuse lifesaving treatments. Under the proposal, doctors could prescribe medications to end a person’s life under certain circumstances.
Doctors, however, would not be legally required to prescribe the drugs.