Newsletter
January 2020

Note From the CEO

Our Voices — A Catalyst for Change

Display Exhibition and Press Conference Urge New York Legislators to “Pass Medical Aid in Dying NOW”

The multiday event marked the opening of Compassion & Choices’ intensified 2020 campaign to authorize medical aid in dying in the Empire State. Read More

Storyteller Spotlight: Debbie Stern

“Even if it’s too late to help me if it doesn’t pass in time, it will be helpful to other people,” says advocate Debbie Stern of supporting her home state, New York’s, medical aid-in-dying bill. Read More

10 Years of Baxter v. Montana: Access and Protection Efforts Continue

As we celebrate a decade of access to medical aid in dying in Montana, we remember those who fought for this option through the groundbreaking court case and countless attempts to upend access to the law.
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In the Media

The New York Times published CEO Kim Callinan’s letter to the editor about how people can reduce needless suffering, even with a dementia diagnosis.
Compassion & Choices National Medical Director Dr. David Grube appears in the Washington Post Magazine story “Her Way” about a D.C. woman’s medical aid-in-dying experience.
Kaiser Health News and The Washington Post ran a piece about a woman whose nursing home refuses to honor her wish to forgo assisted feeding if she becomes incapacitated, and it mentions Compassion & Choices’ Dementia Provision.