A 2021 law has increased pressure on the state’s hospice programs to provide assistance in dying.
Despite attempts by California’s disability rights groups, religious groups, and pro-life health care workers to provide patient protections from the power of the burgeoning assisted suicide industry in the state, there was a 63 percent increase in the number of assisted suicide deaths last year, and a 47 percent increase in the number of prescriptions for lethal drugs prescribed by physicians.
