The Vermont House of Representatives killed the state’s “Patient Choice and Control at End of Life” legislation, voting 82-63 against it. Like Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act, the Vermont bill would have allowed doctors to assist patients in killing themselves.

Rep. Harvey Otterman said the bill would have gone “too far in enforcing one group’s preferences on the traditional values of others.”

Pro-euthanasia groups targeted Vermont, considered a bellwether for radical ideas, in an effort to advance their assisted suicide agenda and to “lay the groundwork for the big win: the state of California,” according to National Right to Life.

Oregon is the only state in the nation to have legalized doctor-assisted suicide.