Doctor-Assisted Suicide AB 651 2005-2006 Session

According to a February Field Poll, fifty-seven (57) percent of California adults support a bill (AB 651) that would allow terminally ill patients to obtain life-ending medications. Under the bill, terminally ill patients would have to be declared mentally competent by two doctors and wait for 15 days before they would be able to request a lethal prescription to self-administer.

The survey was conducted between Feb. 12 and 26. Five hundred adult residents were polled for the survey, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points. A majority of Californians has supported doctor-assisted suicides in polls since 1979, according to Field Poll Director Mark DiCamillo. Poll results are available online http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/RLS2188.pdf

AB 651 can be found at the official site for California legislative information
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_651&sess=CUR&house=B&author=berg