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New Mexico latest state to adopt medically assisted suicide

New Mexico latest state to adopt medically assisted suicide Follow Us Question of the Day By CEDAR ATTANASIO - Associated Press - Thursday, April 8, 2021 SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico has become the latest state to provide a legal pathway for terminally ill patients to choose when and how they die. On Thursday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act, named for a New Mexico judge who advocated for medically assisted suicide laws in 2017, and died from cancer the following year. “Dignity in dying - making the clear-eyed choice to prevent suffering at the end of a terminal illness - is a self-evidently humane policy,” said Lujan Grisham, in a long statement crediting Whitefield and other advocates for fighting to secure the ”peace of mind and humanity this legislation provides.”

Governor signs aid in dying bill - InsuranceNewsNet

Governor signs aid in dying bill Santa Fe New Mexican, The (NM) Apr. 8 In a legislative session full of contentious proposals from more progressive lawmakers such as legalizing cannabis and repealing a decades-old abortion ban perhaps none drew as much controversy as one that would give terminally ill patients the right to seek a doctor s aid in dying. On Thursday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law House Bill 47, known as the Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act, which gives certain patients the right to ask a physician to prescribe drugs to end their suffering. The legislation is named after a

Lujan Grisham signs aid-in-dying bill - InsuranceNewsNet

Lujan Grisham signs aid-in-dying bill Santa Fe New Mexican, The (NM) Apr. 9 In a legislative session full of contentious proposals from more progressive lawmakers such as legalizing cannabis and repealing a decades-old abortion ban perhaps none drew as much controversy as one that would give terminally ill patients the right to seek a doctor s aid in dying. On Thursday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law House Bill 47, known as the Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act, which gives certain patients the right to ask a physician to prescribe drugs to end their suffering. The legislation is named after a New Mexico judge who died of cancer in 2018 after lobbying legislators for years to approve a so-called right-to-die bill.

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