Medical Aid-in-Dying Campaign Progress

Advocacy in Action

Compassion & Choices continues leading efforts to authorize, implement and defend medical aid in dying throughout America so people in every state can access the full range of end-of-life options. So far, we have succeeded in authorizing medical aid in dying in 11 jurisdictions: California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Hawai‘i, Maine, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont and Washington.

Compassion & Choices currently heads campaigns in 18 states. This means a state director and staff on the ground bringing lobbying, media, marketing and legal expertise to rally lawmakers and support thousands of volunteers in getting bills passed. Our work is entirely donor-funded.

Latest Results

(Last updated April 5, 2024)

Medical aid in dying has been introduced in 18 states:

• Nine states have legislation that carried over from the previous year —
  • Delaware, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Wisconsin.
• Ten states introduced new legislation —
  • Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia.
• Two states have introduced bills to improve their existing medical aid-in-dying laws:
  • New Jersey, Colorado.

Medical aid in dying is under attack in three states:

• California, litigation.
• New Jersey, litigation and legislation.
• Washington, litigation.

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