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Senate Appropriations Committee Praised for Leaving D.C. Death with Dignity Act Intact

lukej June 22, 2018 No Comments

(June 22, 2018) Compassion & Choices praised the Senate Appropriations Committee for approving a government funding bill on Thursday afternoon without a policy rider approved by the House Appropriations Committee…

End-of-Life Group Urges Congress to Reject Legislation to Repeal D.C. Death with Dignity Act

lukej June 14, 2018 No Comments

(Washington, D.C. – June 14, 2018) Compassion & Choices urged Congress to reject a policy rider attached to a government funding bill approved by the House Appropriations Committee late Wednesday…

End-of-Life Group Urges Congress to Reject Legislation to Repeal D.C. Death with Dignity Act

lukej June 14, 2018 No Comments

(Washington, D.C. – June 14, 2018) Compassion & Choices urged Congress to reject a policy rider attached to a government funding bill approved by the House Appropriations Committee late Wednesday…

Group Urges Congress to Reject Legislation to Repeal D.C. Death with Dignity Act

lukej May 24, 2018 No Comments

Compassion & Choices urged Congress to reject a policy rider to a government funding bill approved by a House Subcommittee today that would repeal D.C.’s Death with Dignity Act (see…

Group Warns D.C. Death with Dignity Act Opponents Not to Try to Repeal Law Again

lukej May 2, 2018 No Comments

Compassion & Choices praised Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton for her vow today to prevent congressional opponents of D.C.’s Death with Dignity Act from repealing the law this year, as she…

DC patients unable to use aid-in-dying law as paperwork jams

lukej April 6, 2018 No Comments

The following news piece appeared on WUSA9.com on April 6, 2018: It’s been 14 months since DC passed a law to allow terminally ill patients to take their own lives…

DC Patients Say They Can’t Find Doctors to Prescribe Life-Ending Drugs

lukej April 6, 2018 No Comments

The following news piece appeared on NBC 4 Washington on April 6, 2018: Physician-assisted death has been legal in Washington, D.C., since February 2017, but no patients have been prescribed…

Terminally Ill D.C. Woman Asks D.C. Health Dept., Physicians to Help Her Access D.C. Medical Aid-in-Dying Law

lukej April 5, 2018 No Comments

The law allows mentally capable, terminally ill adults with six months or less to live the option to request their doctor write a prescription for medication that they can decide…

Group Warns New Health “Conscience and Religious Freedom Division” Sets Dangerous Precedent for Patients

lukej March 27, 2018 No Comments

The recently created “Conscience and Religious Freedom Division” in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights sets a dangerous precedent for patient access to vital…

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