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Healthcare Improvement & Accountability Project

Ensuring fully-informed, patient-directed care is the prevailing practice in end-of-life medicine and healthcare

  • Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic: Advocating before the U.S. Supreme Court case that people have a private right to choose their healthcare provider under the program's free-choice-of-provider provision, with implications for patient autonomy and access to care.

  • Oregon Association of Hospital and Health Systems v. Oregon: Defended the constitutionality of Oregon’s Health Care Market Oversight program, which regulates large healthcare mergers to protect access to end-of-life, reproductive, and rural care, as well as to promote affordability and equity.

  • Cross v. Montana: ​​Successfully challenged Montana's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, with the court ruling the law unconstitutional under the state's privacy protections, thereby safeguarding families' rights to make personal medical decisions.

If you or someone you love is struggling to get the care you want and deserve, we are here to help. Call us today, or use our legal intake form.

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 Team

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.

Latest News

Group Responds to Anti-Medical-Aid-in-Dying Lawsuits, Emphasizes New York and Illinois Laws Do Not Discriminate Against People with Disabilities
June 11, 2026

Compassion Legal: The End-of-Life Justice Center at Compassion & Choices, spoke out forcefully Thursday after a group of plaintiffs — led by the anti-medical-aid-in-dying group Institute for Patients’ Rights — sued Gov. Kathy Hochul’s and Gov. JB Pritzker’s administrations in an effort to block implementation of the medical aid-in-dying laws in New York and Illinois. …

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Judge Rejects Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of Pregnancy Exclusion in Kansas’ Living Will Law
May 27, 2026

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…

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Michigan Pregnancy Exclusion Law is Unconstitutional
April 20, 2026

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…

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