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No one expects to pass a law that's going to have problems, but it's hardly uncommon to have those told-ya-so moments that offer hollow gratification for those who opposed it from the start. When it comes to governing life and death, these stumbles deserve a longer look.
Jakob Rodgers of The Gazette
recently reported on the first data from Colorado's medical-aid-in-dying law,
which voters passed in 2016. Sixty-nine people sought prescriptions to end their
lives, and 50 of them reportedly picked up the lethal drugs from a
pharmacist.
We don't know how many
died by choice, or what happened to the deadly prescriptions, if any, that
weren't used. Voters passed a law that doesn't require the state health
department to keep track of that kind of information.
