Illinois is poised to become the 12th U.S. state to legalize physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients after the state Senate passed a bill to permit the practice early Friday morning.

The bill, SB 1950 , is chiefly a food preparation sanitation measure, but state House Democrats added a physician-assisted suicide amendment after a stand-alone bill on the controversial practice stalled in the legislature earlier this year.

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