Montpelier, Vt. — The Vermont Senate has turned back an effort to legalize physician-assisted suicide.
Supporters of assisted suicide failed April 12 to garner the votes needed to suspend Senate rules in order to consider the proposal as an amendment, according to the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press.
They needed 22 votes, or a three-fourths majority, but gained only 11.
Eighteen senators voted against suspending the rules.
The measure would have enabled people considered to have fewer than six months to live the legal right to request a lethal drug dosage.
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