New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act (A995c/S2445c), sponsored by Assemblymember Amy Paulin and Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, is one of the most important measures before the New York State Legislature in 2025. With 92 co-sponsors representing every corner of New York State, a growing chorus of lawmakers, voters, and civic organizations representing the broad diversity of the Empire State is calling on the legislature to pass the bill.
A new survey shows that New Yorkers overwhelmingly support medical aid in dying by a 72-23% margin. You can read about it here.
Voters from across the state are joining with Compassion & Choices to raise their voices and urge legislative leaders to lead with love, put families first, and bring the bill to the floor for a vote before the legislative session ends in June. If you support this compassionate bill, click below to take immediate action. If you want to learn more, scan this page for more information or reach out to us by emailing [email protected].
Lawmakers need to hear your voice. When you call lawmakers’ offices, you show them that the New York Medical Aid in Dying Act is among your top priorities as their constituent.
A new survey shows that New Yorkers overwhelmingly support medical aid in dying by a 72-23% margin. You can read about it here.
Compassion & Choices New York campaign director Corinne Carey today applauded the New York State Academy of Family Physicians and its Congress of Delegates for voting overwhelmingly to support the New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act (S3151/A2383), sponsored by Senator Diane Savino (IDC-Staten Island) and Assemblymember Amy Paulin (D-Westchester). Prior to this vote, the NYSAFP…
Grief counselor and hospice volunteer Avery Leora Ross was raised with an openness around discussing death and is now helping to expand end-of-life options in her home state of New York. “There’s nothing wrong with being OK with something that you cannot opt out of,” says Avery Leora Ross about death. “I feel like we…
WIVB-4 Buffalo Story Highlights WNY State Legislators Who Refused Request from Dr. Robert Milch – Co-Founder of Buffalo Hospice – To Meet or Talk, As Dr. Milch Was Terminally Ill and Dying Compassion & Choices’ Senior New York Campaign Director Corinne Carey expressed her disappointment with several state legislators from Western New York who refused…
Distributed to New York State Lawmakers via email February 14, 2022: It’s hard to escape the fact that it’s Valentine’s Day as we’re surrounded by the marketing of red hearts and chocolate everywhere we turn. But on this day that is meant to celebrate love, let me tell you why New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act…
Distributed to New York State Lawmakers via email February 7, 2022: Many of you have asked how medical aid in dying laws are working in the 10 states (+ Washington, D.C.) that have authorized them. We’ve compiled the data from across these jurisdictions and put them in an easy-to-digest format, with links to the sources…
Distributed to New York State Lawmakers via email January 31, 2022: Good morning and Happy Monday. Do you want to know the number one reason why some of the people I’ve met in my travels across the state — from Buffalo to Brooklyn, from Montauk to Malone and everywhere in between — oppose medical aid…
An excerpt from Newsday opinion column, “Time to pass the Medical Aid in Dying Act,” by New York State Assemblymember Fred W. Thiele Jr., published January 27, 2022: “Medical aid in dying. What do those words even mean? We’re all going to die. Why do we need medical aid to help us die? Medical…
Distributed to New York State Lawmakers via email January 24, 2022: Good afternoon! I hope you had a safe & restful weekend, and that despite the Buffalo Bills’ crushing defeat last night, you have a good week ahead. This week our campaign to Stop the Suffering and pass New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act…
Distributed to New York State Lawmakers via email January 21, 2022: This week we launched our campaign to pass New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act (A.4321a/S.6471) by releasing a new 30-second online ad, “In memory of Dr. Robert Milch.” Dr. Milch was the co-founder of Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo. A longtime advocate of medical aid in dying…
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