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Professor Orentlicher Responds to Physician Aid in Dying Law in "The Conversation"
06/10/2016
California became the fifth state to enact a law that will allow terminally ill residents to get a lethal dose of medication from their doctors. Called the “End of Life Option Act” and passed June 9, Professor David Orentlicher examines how we have arrived at this stage in an article published in “The Conversation” on June 10.
Titled “California now have right to ‘aid in dying’: How did we get here?” Professor Orentlicher demonstrates the evolution of how the nation has gone from opposing these kinds of laws 20 years ago to in some instances accepting them today.
A former elected official, Professor Orentlicher served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 2002 through 2008. He is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at IU McKinney and co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health. He also has taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago Law School. He earned degrees in law and medicine at Harvard and specializes as well in health care law and ethics.
