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MONTPELIER, Vermont (LifeSiteNews) — The liberal Republican governor of Vermont, Phil Scott, has signed an assisted suicide law that will allow telemedicine killings by physicians.
Signed on April 27, the new assisted suicide legislation will allow physicians to prescribe remotely “medication to be self-administered for the purpose of hastening the patient’s death.”
Patients can make requests “in the physician’s physical presence or by telemedicine, if the physician determines the use of telemedicine to be clinically appropriate, for medication to be self-administered for the purpose of hastening the patient’s death.”
A physician must still physically examine the patient, but it does not have to be the same one prescribing the life-ending drugs.
The doctor must affirm the patient “was suffering a terminal condition” and this must be “based on the physician’s review of the patient’s relevant medical records and a physician’s physical examination of the patient.”
The new legislation removes the restriction from the previous so-called “patient choice at end of life” laws that patients had to make their requests for noxious drugs in person.
Attorney and bioethics commentator Wesley Smith commented on the
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