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Assisted suicide is a deadly mistake

By Washington Examiner
Published August 20, 2016 4:00am ET
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Assisted suicide is a deadly mistake
Carrie Ann Lucas, center, who opposes the Colorado measure and has a neuromuscular disease that requires her to use a ventilator, said that someone like her would qualify for Colorado's life-ending prescription. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) | Nick Ut

Voters in Colorado will decide in November whether to allow doctors to help terminally ill patients commit suicide.

Similar laws have already passed in California, Montana, Vermont and Washington, all modeled on a 20-year-old Oregon law.

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