Massachusetts elections: Yes on Questions 3 and 2

[anhinga_anhinga]

There are two ballot questions in Massachusetts this year aiming to improve the human rights situation in the state:

http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ele12/ballot_questions_12/quest_3.htm

ballotpedia entry

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http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ele12/ballot_questions_12/quest_2.htm

ballotpedia entry

I hope that Massachusetts will vote "Yes" on these questions.

Comments

[misha-b.livejournal.com]

> (2) has been diagnosed by attending and consulting physicians as having an incurable, irreversible disease that will, within reasonable medical judgment, cause death within six months

Дурацкое какое-то условие.

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

What is proposed is a limited and very conservative change of the current, rather unbearable situation. But it is a very important change nevertheless.

[misha-b.livejournal.com]

I agree that it is better than nothing, but I suspect that many physicians would be justifiably cautious predicting that someone only has six months to live.

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

Well, there is some leeway here -- one is not under obligation to keep the same physician (in this sense, it is just another medical situation; sometimes patients are unhappy with their doctors, and go to other doctors).

(But the main intent of the proposed law is really to allow people to escape torture associated with terminal cancer, although the law is not limited to that.)