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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