Pritzker signs medical aid in dying bill after Oak Park activism

Illinois will soon allow terminally ill adults to seek prescriptions for life-ending medicine.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a Senate Bill 1950, also known as Deb’s law, Friday making Illinois the eleventh state to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives with physician-prescribed medicine.

A group of active Oak Parkers make up the nation’s largest chapter of the Compassion & Choices organization which has lobbied intensely for passage of this controversial legislation…

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