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Note: We are not a general legal services provider. We focus on legal issues specifically related to end-of-life care and patient autonomy.
Our experienced team of litigators work closely with our pro bono counsel to enforce and expand 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. In every case we are involved in, Compassion & Choices’ dedicated legal team prioritizes and seeks to advance patient-directed care.
We’re ensuring that fully-informed patients are the decision makers in their own end of life care; that your decisions and plans are implemented.
We’re protecting and expanding access to existing end of life options and rights. (VSED, treatment withdrawal, pain management).
We’re ensuring fully-informed, patient-directed care is the prevailing practice of end-of-life medicine and healthcare and that you have access to all end-of-life care and options through your health systems and care providers.
Compassion Legal: The End of Life Justice Center at Compassion & Choices, If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice, and Irigonegaray & Revenaugh applauded a ruling by Douglas County District Court, in Kansas, denying a motion to dismiss their state lawsuit on behalf of three Kansas women and two Kansas physicians. The lawsuit, Vernon v. Kobach, challenges…
Last week, Michigan’s law that denied pregnant people the ability to make important decisions about their end-of-life care–commonly referred to as a Pregnancy Exclusion– was ruled unconstitutional under Michigan’s Reproductive Freedom Amendment. The decision came after Michigan women, physicians, and patient advocates joined together to file a lawsuit challenging a Michigan law that denied pregnant…
Ana’s mother, Kate Gessner, was recently shocked to discover that the plaintiffs in the case, including Patients Rights Action Fund, are misstating her daughter’s information to try to overturn Colorado’s medical aid-in-dying law.
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