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Less than a year after Oregon removed residency requirements<\/a> for assisted suicide, Vermont legislators are looking to follow suit.<\/p>\n

The Vermont House Human Services (HHS) Committee approved<\/a> a bill that would allow non-residents from out of state to undergo assisted suicide. The Vermont House passed<\/a> the bill soon after, sending it to the Senate for approval. While 10 states allow assisted suicide, just Oregon \u2014 and potentially Vermont \u2014 allows those who don’t live in the state to be killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemove the residency requirement on enough states that have assisted suicide laws, and you\u2019ve pretty much got the whole United States,\u201d Mary Beerworth, executive director of Vermont Right to Life, told<\/a> the National Catholic Register. Yet Jessica Brumsted, vice chair of the Vermont HHS committee, told the Associated Press that she hopes the bill passes in case her parents or children move out of state, and feel the need to undergo assisted suicide.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf someone was that sick in my family … living out of state, I\u2019d like to think that they could come back and be in my home and go through this process with someone in my family,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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David Englander, Vermont’s senior policy and legal advisor for the Health Department, praised assisted suicide as well. \u201cIt\u2019s important that we move to normalize this kind of care because it is both exceptional but also everyday,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A woman sued Vermont<\/a> in September 2022 to have the residency requirement overturned. Lynda Bluestein, who lives in Connecticut, claimed that requiring someone to live in Vermont to undergo assisted suicide there violates the Equal Protection, Commerce, and Privileges and Immunities clauses of the U.S. Constitution. “We believe that the residency requirements in all medical-aid-in-dying laws, as currently constructed, are unconstitutional,\u201d Amitai Heller, senior staff attorney for assisted suicide advocacy group Compassion & Choices, said at the time in interviews with local media.<\/p>\n

Oregon, having already done away with state residency requirements, has reported concerning data<\/a> regarding assisted suicide. While it’s often claimed that people choose assisted suicide to avoid a painful, prolonged death from a terminal illness, the state’s statistics show that nearly all people who were killed cited \u201closing autonomy\u201d and \u201cless able to engage in activities making life enjoyable\u201d as their reasoning, at respectively 93% and 92%.<\/p>\n

By allowing death tourism \u2014 in which non-residents travel to a state for the sole purpose of committing suicide, a dangerous precedent is set in which no doctor-patient relationship is necessary. Instead, people experiencing suicidal ideations can simply shop around until they find someone willing to rubber-stamp their request, rather than using a doctor familiar with their history who is more willing to provide the palliative care patients actually need.<\/p>\n

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Less than a year after Oregon removed residency requirements for assisted suicide, Vermont legislators are looking to follow suit. The Vermont House Human Services (HHS) Committee approved a bill that would allow non-residents from out of state to undergo assisted suicide. 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