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New Mexico Senate passes medically assisted suicide bill

  • March 16, 2021
  • Associated Press
  • Death and Dying, Latest News, Moral and Ethical Issues, National News

New Mexico Senate passes medically assisted suicide bill

The New Mexico state Senate has passed a law that would remove criminal and civil liability for medical professionals who assist in the death of terminally ill patients who have chosen to end their life.

The Elizabeth Whitfield End-of-Life Options Act is named for a former New Mexico judge who testified in support for a right to die for the terminally ill in 2017. She died of cancer the following year.

The law would require a terminal health diagnosis, a physical and mental health evaluation, and a 48-hour waiting period after a lethal prescription is filled. Bill sponsor and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Stefanics said the entire process would take weeks.

GOP members opposed to the bill compared it to the Senate’s recent repeal of an unenforceable anti-abortion bill.

Value of human life

“There’s elements of partisanship, around this issue, unfortunately, because we do view human life differently,” said Republican Sen. and surgeon Gregg Schmedes, who represents suburbs east of Albuquerque and south of Santa Fe.

He argued that the bill could open the possibility of poorer and less medically literate New Mexicans being pressured to end their life, concluding that under the measure, “the poor lose autonomy.”

Eight other states have legalized assisted suicide.

If passed, New Mexico would become the second state to pass a right-to-die law where a third or more of adults are Catholic, after New Jersey. Like abortion, assisted suicide is opposed by the Catholic church.

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