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A renewed push to legalize ‘medical aid in dying’

Supreme Judicial Court ruling puts issue in hands of Legislature

By Jennifer Smith medical aid in dying, physician-assisted death, physician-assisted suicide 0 Comments Feb 26, 2023

LEGISLATORS AND MEDICAL CHOICE advocates are taking another run at passing a medical aid in dying bill after the Supreme Judicial Court last year placed the responsibility squarely on lawmakers to consider the emotionally fraught subject. A Senate bill and its House counterpart would establish a 10-step vetting process for adult patients with a terminal diagnosis of(...)

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Supreme Judicial Court to consider medical aid in dying case

Lawmakers, voters have declined to allow it

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