Compassion Legal and WilmerHale file motion on behalf of New Yorkers whose end-of-life options could be directly affected by lawsuit seeking to block the law from taking effect Compassion Legal: The End-of-Life Justice Center at Compassion & Choices, along with pro bono counsel WilmerHale, today filed a motion to intervene in Brooklyn Center for Independence…
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. …
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…
In August 2026, New York’s medical aid-in-dying law is set to take effect, followed closely by Illinois in September. Delaware’s new law went into effect in January of this year. But as we’ve seen in other states that have passed medical aid-in-dying legislation, laws alone don’t guarantee access for the people who need them. At…
Every year, Medicare updates the rules that govern hospice care: how it’s paid for, what it covers, and how quality is measured. And every year, Compassion & Choices monitors those proposed changes to be sure they strengthen patient-directed end-of-life care. When they don’t, we take action. This spring, Compassion & Choices’ Chief Legal Advocacy Officer,…
The movement to make medical aid in dying part of the gold standard of fully-informed, patient-directed end-of-life care is growing stronger every year, and 2026 has been no exception. This has been a legislative season of expanding reach and deepening roots. Medical aid-in-dying bills were active in 15 states, from Georgia to Wisconsin. Some advanced…
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