Defeating “Death with Dignity”: Morality and Message in a Massachusetts Referendum
In November 2012, a ballot measure entitled “Death with Dignity” that would legalize physician-assisted suicide was placed before the voters of Massachusetts. The Catholic Church, which had exerted substantial policy influence in the commonwealth but had recently seen its authority falter, faced a p...
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American Catholic Historical Society
2014
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American catholic studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 125, Issue: 2, Pages: 23-43 |
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