Key Highlights
- New York Gov.
- Kathy Hochul said she plans to sign a measure to legalize medically assisted suicide for terminally ill patients under a deal reached with state legislative leaders.
- The governor intends to sign the bill next year after working to add a series of "guardrails," she wrote in an op-ed in the Albany Times Union announcing her plans.
- The measure, approved by state lawmakers during their regulation session earlier this year, will go into effect six months after it is signed. Hochul, who is Catholic, said she listened to New Yorkers in the "throes of pain and suffering," as well as their children, while also hearing out "individuals of many faiths who believe that deliberately shortening one’s life violates the sanctity of life." "I was taught that God is merciful and compassionate, and so must we be," she wrote.
- "This includes permitting a merciful option to those facing the unimaginable and searching for comfort in their final months in this life." NEW JERSEY'S MEDICALLY-ASSISTED SUICIDE LAW ONLY COVERS STATE RESIDENTS, APPEALS COURT RULES New York Gov.
