The Latest: Right-to-die foes: Law may lead to early suicide
Opponents say the California law allowing terminally ill patients to end their lives with doctor-prescribed medication fails to protect people from being coerced into premature suicide.
Marilyn Golden with the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund said the law could allow people denied medication by one doctor to shop around for the lethal drugs.
Edward "Ned" Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference, says palliative care and emotional support is the compassionate response, "not a lethal dose of drugs from a physician."