"Aid in Dying" and Religious Liberty

A bill has been introduced in the California legislature that "would authorize an adult who meets certain qualifications, and who has been determined by his or her attending physician to be suffering from a terminal disease, as defined, to make a request for medication prescribed pursuant to this bill to provide comfort with an assurance of peaceful dying if suffering becomes unbearable."  Does this sound suspiciously like assisted suicide?  Not so fast.  The bill provides:

The patient must self-administer the medication provided under this chapter. Actions taken in accordance with this chapter shall not, for any purpose, constitute suicide, assisted suicide, mercy killing, or homicide, under the law. Every state agency, department, or office that prepares or issues a document or report that describes or refers to the medical practice described in this chapter shall use the phrase "aid in dying" to describe or reference the medical practice in the document or report.

Whatever it's called, Wesley Smith argues that the bill would require Catholic nursing homes and hospices to permit this practice in their facilities.

UPDATE: I just noticed that Steve Bainbridge also weighed in on this today.