The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and the Denver-based group Compassion & Choices filed the suit on behalf of two doctors and a Santa Fe woman with advanced uterine cancer who argued that the New Mexico law should reflect a distinction between assisted suicide for someone awash in despair and “aid in dying” for terminally ill patients. Five states, including Oregon, currently allow patients to seek aid in dying if their illnesses become unbearable.
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Suit Seeks Clarification of Assisted Suicide Law
A New Mexico court last week heard testimony in a lawsuit filed against the state by plaintiffs who want the court to clarify that physicians who prescribe medication to assist terminally-ill patients in ending their lives will not be prosecuted under a decades-old New Mexico law that makes it a fourth-degree felony. So reports the Associated Press.
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