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June 10th, 2016 
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Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Group
Five physicians in California have teamed up with the American Academy of Medical Ethics (AAME) are suing because California allows assisted suicide.
The AAME is a Catholic organization that prides itself on having immersed itself into the medical community with thousands of members nationwide.
The plaintiffs entered in an emergency request for a temporary restraining order against the new law based on religiously-fueled “ethics”; however that plea was rejected by a superior court judge.
According to the lawsuit: “The [ End of Life Option ] Act violates the equal protection and due process guarantees of the California Constitution in that it fails to make rational distinctions between [terminally ill people who qualify under the law], and the vast majority of Californians not covered by the Act.”
The doctors and Catholics contend that “the process in which the End of Life Option Act became law, claiming that state lawmakers violated legislative procedure when they established the law’s June 9 enforcement date at a special session in March.”
In accompanying declarations, the plaintiffs make the audacious declaration that the End of Life Act lacks “effective safeguards” because the law “virtually guarantees that no ‘aid-in-dying drug’ death will be investigated by the coroner or law enforcement agencies.”
Last summer, the Christian and Catholic communities were up-in-arms over the End of Life Act. Because of their opposition, the right to die with dignity law was scrapped from the voting roster of the Assembly Health Committee (AHC) for the second time.
Using religion as the reason, the measure failed to have enough votes for passage.
Effective opposition to the End of Life Act came from religious organizations such as the Catholic Church with Los Angeles archdiocese lobbying state lawmakers on the AHC.
State legislatures on the AHC who are Democratic Catholics from heavily Catholic districts where the archdiocese actively demonstrated against the measure ironically assisted in the death of the right to die bill.
A similar result happened in 2007 when a closely resembling bill was defeated in the state senate with the help of the Catholic Church.
When the law was passed in September of 2015, Tim Rosales, spokesperson for Californians Against Assisted Suicide (CAAS) claimed that ELOA was “being rushed through the Legislature’s special session” because of “eloquent statements of assisted suicide opposition from progressive legislators representing low-income districts.”
Rosales continued: “This bill remains opposed by groups representing people living with disabilities, cancer doctors, people advocating for the poor and uninsured and faith based organizations.”
The reason for this assisted suicide battle was Brittany Maynard who brought this issue to light when she made headlines because of a move from California to Oregon in order to die with dignity.
Maynard told the media : “I don’t want to die. If anyone wants to hand me, like, a magical cure and save my life so that I can have children with my husband, you know, I will take them up on it.”
On why she was choosing to take her own life, Maynard explained: “I think until anyone has walked a mile in my shoes and knows what they’re facing and has felt the — like, just bone-splitting headaches that I get sometimes, or the seizures, or the inability to speak, or the moments where I’m looking at my husband’s face and I can’t think of his name.”
Maynard ended her life on November 1, 2014 in Portland, Oregon.
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