La recién creada “División de Libertad Religiosa y Conciencia” de la Oficina de Derechos Civiles del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de Estados Unidos establece un precedente peligroso para el acceso del paciente a servicios vitales de atención de salud, según una organización de defensa destacada. La organización Compassion & Choices presentó hoy los…

Compassion & Choices thanked congressional leaders for protecting D.C.’s Death with Dignity Act by excluding a House-approved appropriations bill rider to overturn the law from the final omnibus appropriations bill President Trump signed into law this afternoon. Last September, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an appropriations bill (H.R. 3354) that included an amendment by…

Compassion & Choices elogió hoy al Consejo Nacional Hispano para el Adulto Mayor (NHCOA, por sus siglas en inglés) por anunciar su apoyo a las leyes que otorgan a los adultos mentalmente competentes, con una enfermedad terminal y un pronóstico de vida de seis meses o menos, la opción de recibir asistencia médica al morir…

Compassion & Choices praised the National Hispanic Council on Aging (NHCOA) today for announcing it supports laws giving mentally capable terminally ill adults with six months of fewer to live the option of medical aid in dying to peacefully end unbearable suffering.  Medical aid in dying is authorized in the District of Columbia and six states (California,…

Advocates for laws in D.C. and six states that authorize medical aid in dying are urging members of Congress to oppose a House concurrent resolution wrongly claiming medical aid in dying “puts everyone…at risk of deadly harm.” The full resolution (H.Con.Res.80), introduced by Rep. Brad Wenstrup (Ohio) and cosponsored by Reps. Luis Correa (Calif.) and Juan…

Last Thursday, D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton hosted an event at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 47th annual legislative conference to detail how Congress is usurping the District of Columbia’s autonomy to make its own laws. She introduced Compassion & Choices National Constituency Director Brandi Alexander to speak about the U.S. House of Representatives’ recent…

Supporters of D.C.’s Death with Dignity Act criticized the U.S. House of Representatives today for passing the 2018 D.C. Appropriations bill with a rider to repeal the District’s medical-aid-in-dying law. Similar to laws in six states, the D.C. Death with Dignity Act gives mentally capable, terminally ill adults with six months or fewer to live the option…

As our battle to stop Congress from repealing D.C’s Death with Dignity Act continues, voices from all corners of the nation are getting louder. Compassion & Choices’ Week of Action around the matter resulted in an enormous response, and high-profile media outlets are speaking out as well. We started the Week of Action — an…

In today’s unprecedentedly crowded news cycle, when breaking stories seem to arrive by the hour, medical aid in dying remains a hot topic newspapers want to cover. In the past few weeks since the House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment introduced by Congressman Andy Harris (R-MD) to repeal the District of Columbia’s medical aid-in-dying law,…