California · Health and Safety Code - HSC
HSC §443.17: (a) Knowingly altering or forging a request for an aid-in-dying drug to end an individual’s life without their authorization or concealing or destroying a withdrawal or rescission of a request for an
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This statute makes it a felony to alter, forge, conceal, or destroy aid-in-dying drug requests without authorization, coerce someone into requesting such drugs, or administer them without consent, if done knowingly and with intent to cause death.
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