New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act (A136/S138), sponsored by Assemblymember Amy Paulin and Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, was passed by the Assembly in a historic 81-67 vote on April 29. It now advances to the Senate Health Committee.
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.
“Patient decisions must not be limited at the end of life. Legislators, get this done.” I beg legislators to help me fulfill her last wish & pass the Medical Aid in Dying Act.” Compassion & Choices Senior New York Campaign Director Corinne Carey said that the campaign to make New York the 11th state to authorize medical aid in…
“No hay manera de explicar el sentimiento de impotencia, temor y angustia al verlo sufrir” Su temor de no tener la opción de una muerte pacífica se hizo realidad…una muerte lenta y llena de sufrimiento Corinne Carey, directora de campaña de Nueva York para Compassion & Choices, suplico a legisladores estatales del Oeste de Nueva…
Compassion & Choices Senior New York Campaign Director Corinne Carey implored state legislators from Western New York and across the state to ease the suffering of too many terminally ill New Yorkers at the end of life by passing the Medical Aid in Dying Act in 2023. Carey was joined at a Buffalo news conference today –…
Corrine Carey, directora de campaña de NY para Compassion & Choices exigió a los legisladores que dejen de ignorar a los habitantes del estado de Nueva York que sufren al final de la vida. Lo hizo hoy, durante una conferencia de prensa en Lake Placid, al lanzar una campaña comunitaria de dos meses en todo…
“Aid-in-dying laws lead to increase in hospice care & improved end-of-life care” “LAWMAKERS MUST STOP TURNING THEIR BACKS ON NYERS SUFFERING AT THE END OF LIFE” Compassion & Choices Senior New York Campaign Director Corrine Carey urged legislators to stop turning their backs on New Yorkers suffering at the end of life, as she kicked…
An excerpt from The Albany Times Union letter to editor, “Hospitals must disclose ethical, religious rules,” by East Schodack resident Karen R. Kaufmann, published August 28, 2022 “I commend Rachel Silberstein for her excellent story ( “New York reproductive care eroding amid Catholic-secular hospital mergers,” Aug. 14), uncovering how the “merger negotiations between St. Peter’s and Ellis…
Distributed to New York State Lawmakers via email June 2, 2022: Good afternoon, This Legislature had the ability to ease the suffering of dying, terminally ill New Yorkers and once again failed to do so by declining to even consider New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act ( A4321a/ S6471). As the Albany Times Union said in an editorial…
Songs from the powerful musical about a terminally ill young woman’s ultimate choice premiere at a sold-out event. After a pandemic-related delay, the Goodbye New York album, performed by the production’s all-Broadway cast and band, premiered at Feinstein’s/54 Below in the heart of New York City’s theater district on May 8. “The night far exceeded…
An excerpt from the Syracuse.com letter to the editor, “Legislators should pass Medical Aid in Dying Act,” by Baldwinsville resident Carol Keysor, published May 31, 2022: “As someone who has spent over 40 years working in medicine, I am appalled that New York does not have medical aid in dying to provide options to…
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