On the occasion of the New York State Bar Association’s 150th anniversary, from Jan. 13 to Jan. 16, 2026, members present insights, developments, and innovative perspectives shaping the future of the ...

On December 17, 2025, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that a deal was reached with lawmakers to move forward with signing the Medical Aid in Dying Act into law. Hochul’s announcement paves the way for ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Medical Aid in Dying Act is set to be signed into law by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul this month, ending a 10-year journey for the controversial legislation. Here’s what you ...

“I can’t even speak about the real horrors of my situation, because I could be put in the hospital,” said Claire Brosseau Claire Brosseau has spent 34 years living with a number of mental illnesses ...

Hi. I’m Art Caplan. I'm at the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. A topic that we often find up in the air for discussion is medical aid in dying or assisted suicide, ...

As a practicing Catholic, I am troubled by Gov. Kathy Hochul’s support for the Medical Aid in Dying Act, which would legalize assisted suicide in New York [“Opening the door to aid in dying,” ...

New York’s Medical Aid in Dying is often framed as compassion guided by medical expertise. But is the legislation prescribing a moral choice behind the mask of scientific certainty? As a physician, I ...

A federal judge in Delaware dismissed a lawsuit challenging the state’s medical-aid-in-dying law Dec. 30, just two days before it’s slated to take effect. On Dec. 8, a coalition of patient and ...

I want to be clear at the outset that the views expressed here are my own, shaped by my work as an ordained Christian minister and chaplain, and do not represent the position of any hospital, health ...

In response to a federal lawsuit challenging Delaware’s medical-aid-in-dying law filed earlier this month, an advocacy organization has filed a Dec. 19 motion to intervene on behalf of two Delawareans ...

Pope Leo XIV has revealed he privately urged Gov. JB Pritzker not to sign a bill legalizing medical assistance in dying in Illinois. The governor did so anyway last week. The pontiff was not pleased. ...

DOVER, Del. - Two Delaware women and an advocacy organization have filed a motion in U.S. District Court to intervene on Delaware’s behalf in a lawsuit challenging the First State’s new medical aid in ...