New Mexico latest state to adopt medically assisted suicide
New Mexico has become the latest state to provide a legal pathway for terminally ill patients to choose when and how they die.
On April 8, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act, named for a New Mexico judge who advocated for medically assisted suicide laws in 2017 and died from cancer the following year.
“Dignity in dying—making the clear-eyed choice to prevent suffering at the end of a terminal illness—is a self-evidently humane policy,” said Lujan Grisham, in a long statement crediting Whitefield and other advocates for fighting to secure the “peace of mind and humanity this legislation provides.”
