Doctor-assisted suicide becomes legal in California
by JULIE WATSON, Associated Press
FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2014 file photo, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez makes the keynote speech at a Town Hall Los Angeles forum in Los Angeles. Largely Latino California has become the first majority-minority state to allow the terminally ill to hasten their deaths, the biggest test yet to the end-of-life choice that has raised concerns by communities of color. Gomez said that "poor families, African Americans, Latinos and immigrants"Â? when facing a terminal or serious illness will be at risk of coming under pressure to take lethal drugs in the face of high medical costs. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)