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House Committee Passes End of Life Options Act Again in First Hearing of 2025

lukej January 29, 2025 No Comments

The House Health & Human Development Committee Wednesday passed the Ron Silverio/Heather Block Delaware End-of-Life Options Act (HB140) in a vote, the bill’s first in 2025. Terminally ill Delawareans and…

Compassion & Choices Files Opening Brief in Appeal of Federal Court Ruling on New Jersey’s Medical Aid-in-Dying Residency Mandate

lukej January 17, 2025 No Comments

Brief Argues Court’s Unwarranted Assumptions Led to Incorrect Ruling Compassion & Choices Friday filed the opening brief in its appeal of a federal judge’s September ruling upholding the residency requirement…

Past Legislative Session Results

lukej January 7, 2025 No Comments

Past Legislative Session Results 2024 Legislative Session ResultsMedical aid in dying has been introduced in 18 states:Nine states have legislation that carried over from the previous year —Delaware, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Wisconsin.Ten states…

Honoring Advance Directives: Lessons from Lynne Chesley

lukej December 5, 2024 No Comments

After Compassion & Choices attempted to file an amicus brief in the Oklahoma Supreme Court case, Wall Street Journal reporter Ashlea Ebeling interviewed our staff to talk about a case…

Statement from Compassion & Choices on UK Parliament passage of end of life options legislation

lukej November 29, 2024 No Comments

Compassion & Choices issued the following statement with regards to the UK parliament’s vote today Friday, November 29, 2024: “The UK Parliament has taken a significant step in addressing critical…

Protecting Your Right to Compassionate End-of-Life Care

lukej November 26, 2024 No Comments

In the wake of a new political landscape, many Americans are asking what the future holds for personal rights, including the autonomy to make decisions about end-of-life care. A new…

Persistence and Progress: A Look Back, and Forward, to New York’s Campaign for the Medical Aid in Dying Act

lukej November 25, 2024 No Comments

New York’s 2024 legislative session ended in June without passage of the Medical Aid in Dying Act. The session marked nine years of advocacy for medical aid-in-dying legislation in Albany.…

Compassion & Choices Defiende Ley de Ayuda Médica para Morir de California en Demanda Federal

lukej November 14, 2024 No Comments

Grupo de Autores de Escrito Amicus Argumenta que Ley No Discrimina a Personas con Discapacidades Compassion & Choices, la organización nacional de los derechos para el fin de vida presentó el…

Compassion & Choices Defends California’s Medical Aid-in-Dying Law in Federal Lawsuit

lukej November 13, 2024 No Comments

Group Authors Amicus Brief Arguing the Law Does Not Discriminate Against People with Disabilities National end-of-life rights organization Compassion & Choices Tuesday filed an amicus brief in a case challenging…

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