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New Mexico latest state to adopt medically assisted suicide


New Mexico latest state to adopt medically assisted suicide
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By CEDAR ATTANASIO
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Associated Press
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Thursday, April 8, 2021
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico has become the latest state to provide a legal pathway for terminally ill patients to choose when and how they die.
On Thursday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act, named for a New Mexico judge who advocated for medically assisted suicide laws in 2017, and died from cancer the following year.
“Dignity in dying - making the clear-eyed choice to prevent suffering at the end of a terminal illness - is a self-evidently humane policy,” said Lujan Grisham, in a long statement crediting Whitefield and other advocates for fighting to secure the ”peace of mind and humanity this legislation provides.” ....

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