Connecticut lawmakers aren’t the only ones uncomfortable with legalizing assisted suicide, according to a poll commissioned by the New Haven-based Catholic fraternal organization Knight of Columbus.
Similar bills have stalled this year in state legislatures in Maryland, Colorado and Nevada, KoC said.
The KoC-commissioned Marist Poll found that 43 percent of Americans support a doctor prescribing or administering a lethal drug dose, while 36 percent oppose it and 21 percent don’t have a position.
The Associated Press reported earlier this month that the Connecticut General Assembly’s Judiciary Committee did not intend to vote on an assisted suicide bill. The bill is the third attempt by assisted-suicide advocates in the past two years.
Marist surveyed 2,079 adults in January. The survey has a margin of error of +/- 2.1 percent.
