GA considering bill to legalize assisted suicide

By RICK SNIZEK, Editor, RI Catholic

PROVIDENCE — The House Judiciary Committee last Wednesday heard testimony on two bills before the General Assembly of special concern to the Church — one related to an attempt to legalize assisted suicide in Rhode Island, and the other which seeks to expand the scope of practice of physician assistants, something the state’s Right to Life chapter fears could empower those in these positions to perform surgical abortions in the absence of a doctor, unless the language of the bill is made very specific to exclude that possibility. More.