Section 1553 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (a.k.a., ObamaCare), titled "Prohibition Against Discrimination On Assisted Suicide," appears to side with opponents of physician assisted suicide, protecting them from "discrimination." At the same time it reframes the debate as one of civil rights, and brings assisted suicide more into the mainstream.
The section's title is itself misleading; a more accurate title would be "Prohibition Against Discrimination for Refusing Assisted Suicide":
The Federal Government ...[et. al] may not subject an individual or institutional health care entity to discrimination on the basis that the entity does not provide any health care item or service furnished for the purpose of causing, or for the purpose of assisting in causing, the death of any individual, such as by assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing. [my italics]
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