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    California's physician-assisted suicide law is overturned — for now

    by Soumya Karlamangla, Los Angeles Times May 26, 2018 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Nearly two years after it was enacted, California's physician-assisted suicide law is, at least for the moment, no longer in effect.

    A Riverside County judge who ruled against the law last week issued a formal judgment Friday deeming it unconstitutional. Legal experts said that meant the law had been overturned.

    The law allowed patients who are terminally ill to request life-ending medications from their doctors. In the first six months it was in effect, more than 100 Californians, most of them suffering from cancer, used it to take

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