Montana Committee Defeats Bill to Legalize Assisted Suicide  by
Alex Schadenberg | Helena, MT | | 2/14/13 6:54 PM   The
Montanans Against Assisted Suicide reported that Montana Senate
Bill SB 220, the bill to legalize assisted suicide in Montana
was defeated by the Senate Judiciary Committee by a vote of 7 to
5. They then voted to table the bill to 2015.  The last two
legislative sessions in Montana, have debated a bill to legalize
assisted suicide and both times they have defeated the bill.  SB
220 was being promoted by the assisted suicide lobby as a bill
to regulate assisted suicide.  The assisted suicide lobby
falsely claim that the Baxter court decision in Montana (2009)
legalized assisted suicide without regulations and Bill SB 220
was only designed to regulate assisted suicide.  The fact is
that the Baxter court decision created a “defense of consent” if
a doctor was prosecuted for assisted suicide, leaving assisted
suicide as a crime and making prosecutions for assisted suicide
possible.  SB 220 would