{"id":13687,"date":"2026-06-11T23:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=13687"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:08:11","slug":"disability-patients-sue-new-york-to-stop-doctor-assisted-suicide-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=13687","title":{"rendered":"Disability patients sue New York to stop doctor-assisted suicide law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A coalition advocating for patients with disabilities filed federal lawsuits Thursday seeking to scrap New York and Illinois\u2019 controversial doctor-assisted suicide laws for allegedly treating the terminally ill as \u201cdisposable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York state Health Department recently published rules for administering the law, which takes effect August 5 and allows terminally ill New Yorkers with less than six months to live to make a voluntary, informed decision to request medication to end their lives via suicide.<\/p>\n<p>But the lawsuits argue that the doctor-assisted suicide laws in both states discriminate against people with disabilities by singling them out for lethal prescriptions rather than providing equal access to the care, support and suicide prevention services offered to other patients perceived as non or less disabled.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The coalition argues that doctor-assisted suicide laws for allegedly treating the terminally ill as \u201cdisposable.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Plaintiffs contend that these laws violate the Americans With Disabilities Act and deny equal protection and due process to individuals with disabilities under the 14th Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen states legalize assisted suicide while simultaneously cutting home care and community-based services, they send a dangerous message: that death is a solution for disability and lack of support,\u201d said Sharon Shapiro, a board member at the Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled, a plaintiff in the case as part of the End Assisted Suicide Coalition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not \u2018choice,\u2019 it\u2019s discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The case filed in the US Eastern District Court in Brooklyn names Gov. Kathy Hochul, state Health Department and its Commissioner James McDonald, the New York State Board of Medicine and its chair Amit Shelat and Mental Health Commissioner Anni Marie Sullivan as defendants.<\/p>\n<p>One of the plaintiffs, Jose Hern\u00e1ndez, said he was thankful the law wasn\u2019t around when his mother was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer when she was 28 years old and he was only eight. Doctors estimated she would live for only six months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the time, assisted suicide was not available, and thankfully so,\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez, a person with disabilities and member of the plaintiff organization United Spinal Association, said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The case filed in the US Eastern District Court in Brooklyn names Gov. Kathy Hochul, James McDonald, Amit Shelat, and Mental Health Commissioner Anni Marie Sullivan as defendants. <span class=\"credit\">Andrew Schwartz \/ SplashNews.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDoctors did everything they could, her insurance paid for life-saving treatment, and my mother survived for 13 years,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf she had chosen to end her life, I would have missed out on 13 years of goodnight kisses, home-cooked meals, and the opportunity to be raised by a mother who made me the strong man I am today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matt Valli\u00e8re, president and executive director of the Institute for Patients\u2019 Right, said assisted suicide laws \u201ccreate a separate and unequal system in which people with life-threatening disabilities are offered death instead of the support programs everyone else gets.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"single__inline-module inline-module inline-module--newsletter aligncenter inline-module--nypostbusinessunit aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-newsletter\" data-source-unit=\"Inline Newsletter Module Morning Report\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__title-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__unsubmitted-title-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThese legal actions are about affirming that every person has inestimable value and dignity, regardless of age, disability, or prognosis, and ensuring that no one is treated as disposable under the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The medical euthanasia law was also condemned by New York Archdiocese Archbishop Ronald Hicks as the expression of a growing \u201cthrowaway\u201d culture that discards life.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul, a Catholic, insisted she and lawmakers \u201cmade the right decision\u201d when approving doctor-assisted suicide the law on Feb. 6.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<p>The law effectively makes New York a beefed-up version of \u201cDoctor Death\u201d \u2013 the late doctor Jack Kevorkian, whose trailblazing efforts to help patients end their own lives made him the wider death with dignity movement\u2019s face during the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>But whereas Kevorkian skirted the law, New York is now one of 13 states plus Washington DC \u2014 nearly all liberal blue jurisdictions \u2014 that officially approved doctor-assisted suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters have branded the law with a euphemism: \u201cMedical Aid in Dying\u201d or MAID.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single__inline-module inline-module inline-module--newsletter aligncenter inline-module--nypostbusinessunit aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-newsletter\" data-source-unit=\"Inline Newsletter Module Morning Report\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__title-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__unsubmitted-title-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOur state will always stand firm in safeguarding New Yorkers\u2019 freedoms and right to bodily autonomy, which includes the right for the terminally ill to peacefully and comfortably end their lives with dignity and compassion,\u201d Hochul said, as she recalled the pain of watching her mother suffer from ALS.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul\u2019s office said Thursday it could not comment on pending litigation, but added, \u201cthe historic legislation allows terminally ill New Yorkers with less than six months to live to make a voluntary, informed decision to request medication for medical aid in dying. It reflects years of thoughtful planning and consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department of Health is working on regulations that will implement the law thoughtfully and responsibly,\u201d a Hochul spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>State Attorney General Letitia James, whose office defends the state in litigation, declined comment.<\/p>\n<p>The End Assisted Suicide coalition previously filed lawsuits against doctor-assisted suicide laws in California, Colorado and Delaware.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 728px 160px; gap:2px; width:908px; background:#eee; padding:2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u901a\u680f\u9876\u90e8\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u6a2a\u5e45 908x258 \u8de8\u6574\u884c -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; height:258px; background:#ff6b6b; display:grid; place-items:center;\">\r\n    <!-- JuicyAds v3.0 -->\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async src=\"https:\/\/poweredby.jads.co\/js\/jads.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins id=\"1114307\" data-width=\"908\" data-height=\"258\"><\/ins>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async>(adsbyjuicy = window.adsbyjuicy || []).push({'adzone':1114307});<\/script>\r\n<!--JuicyAds END-->\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u7b2c\u4e8c\u901a\u680f\uff1a728\u00d790 \u901a\u680f -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; 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