Newsletter
September 2019

Note from the CEO

Patient-driven care is at the core of our mission and work. Read More

Top News

New Jersey’s Medical Aid-in-Dying Law Back in Effect!

A New Jersey appellate court granted a request by state Attorney General Grewal to overturn a temporary restraining order that suspended the law for 13 days. Read More

Storyteller Spotlight: Dan Winter

Determined to avoid the same “long, ugly struggle” with Alzheimer’s his father endured, Dan Winter is making the most of Compassion & Choices’ new dementia tools. Read More

Minnesota Hearing Makes a Powerful Impression

Photo by Andrew VonBank

An informational House hearing on Minnesota’s medical aid-in-dying law draws massive supporter turnout and weighty testimony. Read More

In the Media

• The New York Times’ “The Role of Nurses When Patients Decide to End Their Lives” highlighted the experience of Compassion & Choices clients Pam and Ben Wald.
• CEO Kim Callinan’s op-ed on the inhumanity of the Patient Rights Act, which would restrict federal funding for healthcare providers that “do not respect all human life,” ran in the Idaho Press.
• Both Time and Politico reported on a Colorado physician who was fired after suing her healthcare network to provide a terminally ill patient with aid-in-dying medication, legal in the state since 2017.

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