Sentences with phrase «helped legalise»

A woman who helped legalise abortion in the United States but later converted to Christianity, has died aged 69.

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In the absence of legislation on assisted dying, we have to establish the right to a doctor - assisted death through the courts but we also hope that Paul's case will help to stimulate public debate on this issue, and convince Parliament to listen to the massive majority opinion in this country and legalise assisted dying.»
«I didn't learn some important lessons from that [drug reports he helped write]... but I don't think we should be legalising any drugs that are currently illegal,» he replies.
A controversial case history detailing how a doctor helped a patient commit suicide appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine in March 1991; and the following November the State of Washington held a referendum on a bill to legalise physician - assisted suicide.
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