Massachusetts Medical Society Votes Overwhelmingly Against Assisted Suicide

Good for the Massachusetts Medical Society, who just voted to oppose legalized killing via assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Massachusetts Medical Society Opposes Assisted

As Massachusetts voters consider the possibility of going to the polls to vote for a measure that would make the state the third to legalize assisted suicide, the Massachusetts Medical Society’s House of Delegates voted to retain its position against it.

At a weekend vote at its Interim Meeting, the Massachusetts Medical Society voted 178 to 56 to retain the Society’s long-standing opposition to physician assisted suicide. The doctors group unanimously passed additional language endorsing quality end-of-life care. more