Judge Overturns Assisted Suicide Law In California

"A California law permitting physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients has been overturned by a judge who says it was passed unconstitutionally....

"The act itself was rushed through the special session of the Legislature, and it does not have any of the safeguards one would expect to see in a law like this," Larson says.

Opponents have argued that the law could lead to coercion and abuse of terminally ill patients...."