A push to legalize life-ending medication for terminally ill New Yorkers
Barbara Thomas stood in the middle of a busy underground hallway entering the New York State Capitol last month, one of roughly a dozen older activists in yellow T-shirts who handed out coaster-sized stickers of yellow roses to lawmakers and lobbyists whizzing by.
Each year, advocates for the measure cross their fingers, hoping the bill will at last get a vote in the state Legislature. Each year, they’ve been disappointed. Still, they persist.for the first time. The group said the bill “offers both dignity and compassion” for those who have few months left to live.
The state Catholic Conference, a lobbying group representing Cardinal Timothy Dolan and other bishops across New York, is making defeating the bill its No. 1 priority for the remainder of the 2024 legislative session that runs through early June, according to Dennis Poust, the organization's executive director.
Blaise Bryant, communications specialist for the New York Association on Independent Living, said the independent living movement is “all about people making choices.” They also say the New York bill includes provisions to protect patients from coercion. Under the current legislation, two doctors would have to confirm that anyone seeking life-ending medication — most commonly a compound of drugs in powder form, dissolved into water — has an irreversible, incurable illness or condition with a prognosis of six months or less to live.
But in the Catholic Church's view, the measure represents a “threat to human dignity,” no matter how many protections are in place.
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