AARP Idaho
Idaho House Committee Says "Conscience" Trumps Patients' Rights
Published in Law and Health Weekly, March 27th, 2010
A living will or advance directive for end of life care may soon be worthless documents in Idaho if state legislators have their way - and that's news that has older Idahoans outraged. After receiving hundreds of calls and emails from AARP members urging the bill be amended to address the issue, this morning the House State Affairs Committee passed the Health Freedom of Conscience bill (SB 1353), allowing all Idaho health care professionals to ignore end of life care and treatment at any time they feel it violates their "conscience."
AARP strongly opposed the legislation and urged that the "end of life" language be removed. Representative Elfreda Higgins offered an...
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