{"id":185175,"date":"2026-05-06T09:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185175\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:21:06","slug":"should-terminally-ill-patients-in-pennsylvania-be-allowed-to-die-with-the-help-of-a-doctor-poll-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185175\/","title":{"rendered":"Should terminally ill patients in Pennsylvania be allowed to die with the help of a doctor? [poll] | Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen states, including New Jersey, New York and Delaware, offer medical aid in dying. In those states, terminally ill patients with less than six months to live can ask a doctor to prescribe them lethal medication, and the doctor can legally provide it.<\/p>\n<p>LNP | LancasterOnline is working on a story about efforts in the state Legislature to allow medical aid in dying in Pennsylvania, and we want to know how you feel about the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Results from this anonymous reader poll will be included in our coverage.<\/p>\n<p>        Do you believe a terminally ill patient with less than six months to live should be allowed to die with the help of a physician?<\/p>\n<p>\n                Back\n            <\/p>\n<p>        Do you believe Americans, regardless of infirmity, should have the right to determine their time and manner of death?<\/p>\n<p>\n                Back\n            <\/p>\n<p>        Should the government regulate when and how a person can die?<\/p>\n<p>\n                Back\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thirteen states, including New Jersey, New York and Delaware, offer medical aid in dying. In those states, terminally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,4609],"class_list":["post-185175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-powerandpolicy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}