New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act (A136/S138), sponsored by Assemblymember Amy Paulin and Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, is one of the most important measures before the New York State Legislature.
Introduced in 2025 with nearly 80 co-sponsors representing every corner of the state, this measure has garnered a growing chorus of lawmakers, voters, and civic organizations representing the Empire State’s broad diversity. This dynamic group is urging policymakers to lead with love and pass this critical bill without delay.
New Yorkers overwhelmingly support medical aid in dying by a 72-23% margin. Read more about public support here.
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Lawmakers need to know that medical aid-in-dying advocates will remain a presence in the halls of the capitol and legislative office building as long as it takes to pass the New York Medical Aid in Dying Act. Urge them to make passage of these bills a top priority in the 2025 legislative session.
A new survey shows that New Yorkers overwhelmingly support medical aid in dying by a 72-23% margin. You can read about it here.
Una encuesta reciente de YouGov poll mostró que los neoyorquinos apoyan abrumadoramente la ayuda médica para morir, ( 72-23%), incluyendo las fuertes mayorías de demócratas, depublicanos e independientes, así como de negros, blancos, latinos, asiáticos y votantes de cada region del estado.
A recent YouGov poll showed New Yorkers overwhelmingly support medical aid in dying, 72-23%, including strong majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents, as well as Black, white, Latino, and Asian voters, and voters from every region of the state.
New York’s 2024 legislative session ended in June without passage of the Medical Aid in Dying Act. The session marked nine years of advocacy for medical aid-in-dying legislation in Alban
Terminally ill New Yorkers who had hoped to have medical aid in dying available to them in their final days expressed theri extreme disappointment in the Legislature’s failure to act.
Campaña para Autorizar Ayuda Médica para Morir en 2025 Empieza Hoy Mismo
Corinne Carey, senior New York campaign director of Compassion & Choices, applauded the New York State Council of Churches for issuing a memo in support of New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act.
A native New York filmmaker, Serene Meshel-Dillman, chronicles her parents’ use of California’s End of Life Option Act and other terminally ill advocates for medical aid in dying across the country in a new documentary series streaming now on Amazon Prime Video: “Take Me Out Feet First.”
Lifelong New Yorker Brian Moffett, 66, who hopes to be the first person to use New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act because he is dying of ALS and wants to pass peacefully, was visited Monday by Senator Jessica Scarcella-Spanton (D-Staten Island) and Assembly Member Amanda Septimo (D-Bronx) at a Manhattan rehab facility.
Corinne Carey, Compassion & Choices’ Senior Campaign Director for NY/NJ, and terminally ill Bronx resident Jules Netherland, issued the following statements in conjunction with their arrest Tuesday for civil disobedience (official charge is anticipated to be disorderly conduct) – and the arrest of nine other advocates in support of New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act.
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