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NEW YORK GOV. KATHY HOCHUL (D) said she’d sign legislation allowing terminally ill people to end their lives with prescribed medication, joining a dozen other states authorizing physician assisted suicide.
- The Democratic governor’s decision on Wednesday caps a heated lobbying effort on both sides for nearly a decade since the bill was first introduced, with opposition from the New York State Catholic Conference.
- “New York has long been a beacon of freedom, and now it is time we extend that freedom to terminally ill New Yorkers who want the right to die comfortably and on their own terms,” Hochul ...