NESenators reject medically assisted death bill; 'It is on the way. It is inevitable,' Chambers says

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Martha Stoddard

LINCOLN — A lopsided vote against allowing physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs for terminally ill adults Monday was no surprise to the bill’s sponsor.

But State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha, who introduced Legislative Bill 1056, predicted there will be a time when physician aid-in-dying is accepted in Nebraska.

“It is on the way. It is inevitable,” he told colleagues.

For this year, however, Nebraska lawmakers refused to pull the bill out of the Judiciary Committee, where it had stalled.

FULL story and related stories at link.

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JAKE CRANDALL / THE WORLD HERALD
State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha, who sponsored similar legislation 18 years ago, said the idea is becoming increasingly acceptable.


Read more: http://www.livewellnebraska.com/health/article_5d26304e-fa85-11e5-8773-dffc6779856a.html

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State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha has been a fighter in the legislature almost as long as I can remember. He was forced out for four years when a term limits bill was passed. He was a friend of working families his entire career!

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[jomin41]

1. I wonder if the people who

are opposed to this bill are the same people who are big on the death penalty?

[mnhtnbb]

2. I remember Ernie well from the days when we lived in Lincoln.

The opposition to this comes from an extremely powerful right wing group of churches. The diocese
of the Catholic Church was so right wing when we were there they wouldn't even allow altar girls.
Of course, maybe that would have cut down on the population of little boys for the priests to molest.


They excommunicated numerous people who belonged to groups that didn't toe the catechism line
according to their bishop who was a nasty, authoritarian, misogynistic creep.


http://ncronline.org/books/2014/06/book-tells-nebraskas-catholic-horror-story