ELECTION DAY: oregon voters pass Measure 16 (51% to 49%), recognizing the right of terminally ill state residents to end their suffering though physician assisted suicide.

       [restored 3/21/2023]

Subsequent Events:

3/8/1996                   11/5/1996                    1/17/2006                   12/31/2009

Authority:

oregon constitution, article XVII, section 2
www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/Pages/OrConst.aspx

References:

Oregon Death with Dignity Act: A History – Physician-Assisted Death Oregon – Death With Dignity
www.deathwithdignity.org/oregon-death-with-dignity-act-history/

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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