On March 28, 2022, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum entered into a settlement agreement that guaranteed the non-enforcement of the residency requirement in Oregon’s “Death with Dignity Act.” This statute limited physician-assisted suicide access to residents of Oregon. Oregon Right to Life Executive Director, Lois Anderson, warns against the short physician-patient relationships and the push to eliminate any waiting period for life-ending drugs. He says that the residency requirement at least protected some patients from predatory practices going unnoticed in the current execution of the law. “Oregon has launched its new industry—death tourism.”
