New Mexico s Dangerous, Discriminatory Assisted Suicide Law | Opinion Matt Valliere
, Executive Director, Patients Rights Action Fund On 4/13/21 at 6:00 AM EDT
In the midst of a pandemic, the New Mexico state legislature ignored the needs of its constituents many of whom lack basics like reliable electricity and running water, never mind basic medical care in favor of passing a dangerous and discriminatory assisted suicide law. This and similar policies in other states have proven the failure of proponents to safeguard the people most susceptible to abuse, mistakes and coercion.
Beyond the fact that every supposed safeguard in the New Mexico law and others like it is unenforceable and circumventable, legislators in the state have allowed medical professionals with less training to facilitate patients suicide. Doctors themselves are not always accurate in their prognostications, and patients could throw away good months, years or even decades over a best-gue
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