Compassion & Choices is committed to enforcing and expanding the rights of terminally ill people. Through our work in the courts, we fight to ensure that everyone can receive high-quality end-of-life care that is in line with their values, wishes and beliefs. We have been at the forefront of end-of-life care legal issues. Examples include the fight to explicitly authorize, expand and defend access to medical aid in dying as well as the effort to remove unnecessary restrictions from and secure compliance with advance care planning documents. In every case it is involved in, Compassion & Choices’ legal team prioritizes and seeks to advance patient-directed care.
Part of the Kligler legal team, including attorneys from Morgan Lewis, O'Melveny and Compassion & Choices at the Supreme Judicial Court in Boston.
Medida Acusaría a Médicos de Homicidio por Brindar Opción de Muerte Pacífica a Pacientes
Bill Would Charge Doctors with Homicide for Providing Patients with Peaceful Death Option
Medical aid in dying is under attack in Montana — and we need your help. Montana lawmakers have attempted to criminalize medical aid in dying every single session since the right to this compassionate choice was upheld by the Montana Supreme Court in 2009. Just a few weeks ago SB 136, the Physician Imprisonment Act, was…
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