Maryland House committee to hear testimony for End of Life Options Act

The Washington Post: A joint House committee is scheduled to hear hours of what should be emotional and thought-provoking testimony on Friday on whether Maryland should become the seventh state in the country to allow terminally-ill patients to take their own lives.

The 1 p.m. hearing is the first this year on the End of Life Options Act, a bill that would allow a doctor to prescribe life-ending drugs to someone who physicians say has six months or less to live and is able to self-administer the medication.

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