A patient, a physician, and a licensed professional counselor specializing in eating disorders joined Compassion & Choices Action Network Tuesday in filing a motion to intervene and oppose a lawsuit seeking to invalidate Colorado’s End of Life Options Act.
The new law will amend the California End of Life Option Act by removing its sunset clause, which would have caused the law to end in 2031, making medical aid in dying a permanent option for qualifying, terminally ill Californians.
Through the collective impact of dedicated advocates, medical professionals, and legislative champions who have been on the ground advocating for this option since the beginning, SB 403 swiftly moved through the Senate in June and the Assembly Health and Judiciary Committees in July.
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End-of-life options advocates are urging the governors of two of the nation’s most populous states, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, to sign medical aid-in-dying legislation. California lawmakers have approved a bill (SB 403) to make the state’s End of Life Options Act permanent by removing the sunset provision that would…
August 7 marked one year since legislation to improve access to Colorado’s End-of-Life Options Act was enacted. Signed by Governor Jared Polis last June, SB68 shortened the mandatory minimum waiting period between oral requests for a medical aid-in-dying prescription from 15 days to seven days, allowing a prescribing provider to waive the waiting period if…
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