Legislative Memo: New York Medical Aid in Dying Act

The New York Civil Liberties Union strongly supports the New York Medical Aid in Dying Act, which would give people who are terminally ill with a prognosis of no more than six months to live the option to request, through a tightly regulated process, medication they can administer themselves to bring about a peaceful death.

Giving individuals control over how they end their life is both compassionate and in keeping with important civil liberties principles.