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A recent survey of Maryland voters suggested comprehensive support for the proposed medical assistance-dyeing law, a widely debated bill that will allow terminal patients to qualify to decide his own death with the help of a physician.
Compassion and option, a non-profit advocacy group, which is emphasizing for the assistance of aid across the US, commissioned the Gonzalase Research and Media in Annapolis to survey the Maryland voters on the issue.
The results of the survey released last week have shown that 69.9% of Maryland’s voters feel that a mentally sound but only six months to live should have a legal option to request medical aid-in-diing services, while 22% of those who respond to the poll do not support that option. About 8% of the respondents did not respond.
The survey was conducted on 23-February. 2 on the phone. A total of 815 registered voters in Maryland answered the survey questions. The pole had a 3.5-point margin error.
According to the results of the poll, the overall support for medical a-in-dyeing spreads political parties and demographics, as 72% of Democrats supported 69% Republican and 65% unaffected voters in the survey.
White voters are more likely to support medical a-in-dyeing options, with 66% of black voters in support of 74% of white voters. About 72% of men surveyed the support-to-aids options compared to 68% of women responding to the survey.
In the survey, voters were also asked to consider what they would do if they have terminal disease and had medical help in the option of dying.
“If you had an incurable, terminal disease, there was still a sound brain, had less than six months to live, and you met legal requirements, do you want medical aid-in-dying option … yes or not?” Pols asked.
Support for that question fell to 59.3%, with 39.8% saying that they do not want medical aid-in-dyeing option.
One of the common criticisms against the law is a matter of concern that some weak population, such as disabled people, can be forced to demand aid-dead options so that their families and loved ones are not burdened.
However, the Gonzalez survey found that Maryland voters who have disabled may be in favor of aid-to-death law.
164 survey was respondent, who self-drewed as a physical or mental disability “which limits life activities seriously.”
Of the 164 voters, 130 or 79.3% disabled voters will support medical aid services for those who are ill compared to 16.5% of disabled voters, who do not support the option. The remaining 4.3% did not respond.
The results of the poll gives an idea of how the Marylanders feel about the medical aid-in-dyeing, as the state MPs tried to pass the law once again.
2024 end-of-life option act
Efforts to pass medical aid-in-dyeing have been unsuccessful in previous years. In particular, in 2019 the add-in-dyeing law ended on the serial floor, when a senator chose not to vote, causing 23–23 tie votes and Bill.
Members of the House Health and Government Operations Committee and Judiciary Committee listened to the law of public testimony on Friday, which were referred to as the End-off-Life Option Act (Honorable Eliza E. Coming and Honorable Shane E. Pendgrass Act).
The delegates gathered on a zoom call for a virtual bill hearing on HB 403, sponsored by Dale Terry L. Hill (D-Hover).
Hill said, “The subject under this bill is one that raises a great deal of emotions and thoughts … I have held many conversations with people about the issues addressed in this law over the years.” “Many members of this joint committee have also made this bill in front of them and wrestle with it.
During the hearing, the dedicated companion and long -term friends who went through deadly diseases, shared the difficult stories of supporting their loved ones in the last moments of their life. Medical professionals and religious leaders also weighed on both sides of the issue.
SB 433, the Senate version of the law, was heard in the Senate Finance Committee on 8 February, with similar emotional public testimony and challenging discussions. The bill is sponsored by Sen Jeff Waldstature (D-Montgomery).
Neither bills have been set for the votes of the committee. If the law is approved in the committee, the bills will still need to consider a full vote by the House and Senate. Meanwhile, law manufacturers can add changes to the law through modifications.
Bill supporters hope that the 2024 session is the year when the Medical Aid-in-Dyeing Act will be successful and Maryland will become law.
Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) has earlier stated that he believes that the Senate Chamber will have sufficiently favorable votes for the law. And the village Wes Moore (D) indicated his interest in signing the law that it should come to his desk. Both Moore and Ferguson say that the nuances of the bill will be important.
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