New York’s Highest Court Refuses To Find Doctors Can Legally Provide Aid In Dying

(September 15, 2017, 4:24 PM EDT) -- ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York Court of Appeals on Sept. 7 upheld the state’s ban on legally assisted suicide after determining that individuals do not have a constitutional right to receive aid in dying and that physicians can be held criminally liable if they provide aid in dying to any individual (Sara Myers et al., v Eric Schneiderman et al., No. 77, N.Y. App., 2017 N.Y. LEXIS 2557)....

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