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Aid-In-Dying Bill Won't Be Voted On This Legislative Session

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Inside the Connecticut State Capitol.
Advocates decided to pull the bill from the Judiciary Committee's consideration.

Advocates for a law to allow terminally ill patients access to life ending drugs are hoping for success next year because there's not enough support this legislative session.

This is the third time aid-in-dying legislation has been before a legislative committee.

Tim Appleton is the state campaign manager for Compassion and Choices, a group that supports aid-in-dying laws across the country. He said advocates decided to pull the bill from the Judiciary Committee's consideration.

"We were concerned that if the votes weren't there to come out of committee, that a vote in the negative would set back this issue for several years," Appleton said. "With everything that's at stake -- with the 7,000 people who die from terminal cancers every single year, many of them wanting this choice -- we just could not take that risk."

Appleton said four other states including Vermont have laws that give residents who have terminal illnesses a choice. He also pointed to previous Quinnipiac Polls that show there's public support for this law in Connecticut.

Similar bills failed to get out of the Public Health Committee during the previous two sessions. The Connecticut Catholic Conference has lobbied strongly against the bill each year that it's come up.

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The independent journalism and non-commercial programming you rely on every day is in danger.

If you’re reading this, you believe in trusted journalism and in learning without paywalls. You value access to educational content kids love and enriching cultural programming.

Now all of that is at risk.

Federal funding for public media is under threat and if it goes, the impact to our communities will be devastating.

Together, we can defend it. It’s time to protect what matters.

Your voice has protected public media before. Now, it’s needed again. Learn how you can protect the news and programming you depend on.