<http://thehumanfuture.blogspot.com/2008/11/washington-second-state-to-legalize.html>Washington
 
- Second State to Legalize Physician-Assisted Suicide

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Initiative 1000 
<http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/11/05/washington-passes-initiative-1000-legalizing-physician-assisted-suicide/>passes
 
59% - 41%. The safety mechanism in place is you must have less than 
six months to live. Wow, scientific and medical progress can now 
predict within six months our time of death! (she said cynically). 
And 
<http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/10/31/washington-state-could-let-terminally-ill-patients-take-lethal-drug-doses/>more
 
added safety features, since we don't want to accidentally kill the wrong folk:

The measure would apply to patients who are mentally competent and 
have a life expectancy of less than six months. Patients would have 
to request the lethal dose once, then go through a 15-day waiting 
period, then make the request again both orally and in writing.

Two doctors must approve the request, and the patient must be the one 
to take the dose (it can't be administered by a doctor).

Here is 
the<http://wei.secstate.wa.gov/osos/en/Documents/I1000-Text%20for%20web.pdf> 
full text of the Washington "Death with Dignity" Act.


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Prayer for Unborn Life:
O GOD OF LIFE AND LOVE, You have given us the gift to participate 
with You to bring new life into the world.  But, all too often, the 
mother's womb, which should be a nursery of life, becomes instead a 
place of it's destruction.

Help us to remove this evil and ensure respect for all life made in 
Your image and likeness, called to fulfill its promise on this earth,
and destined to find a home with you for all eternity.

We ask this through Jesus Christ, Our Lord, Our God, Our Savior, and Our ALL.
Amen.

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