Aid-in-Dying Would Worsen Health Care Inequities

Jesse Bethke Gomez is the Executive Director of the Metropolitan Center for Independent Living in Minneapolis, Minnesota who writes in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune about proposed legislation that would authorize physician-assisted suicide in the state.  Gomez argues the proposed legislation is dangerous for people with disabilities.  “While the current bill draft may have narrow eligibility requirements, many states where physician-assisted suicide is legal have gradually expanded their laws to include longer-term prognoses and non-terminal illnesses. That should be a pause for concern for us in Minnesota.”

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