In a Friday ruling, “A federal judge says part of California’s aid-in-dying law is unconstitutional because it requires physicians, regardless of personal objections, to report a terminally ill patient’s request for life-ending medication,” quotes the San Fransisco Chronicle in their recent article.
Some patients, including many with disabilities, will want to receive care from a physician and/or facility that will not help them kill themselves in a dark moment or devalue their lives.
If forced participation is left standing, patients do not have the assurance of equal suicide prevention care, especially people with life-threatening disabilities, like a person who needs breathing support, someone with a high spinal cord injury, diabetes, or even anorexia.