Some terminally ill patients in Maine will have the legal option to pursue medically-assisted suicide. Once the new law takes effect, Maine will join seven other states and DC in allowing medical aid in dying.
Once the new law takes effect, Maine will join seven other states and the District of Columbia in allowing medical aid in dying.The legislation says mentally competent patients over age 18 with terminal diseases that,"within reasonable medical judgment, produce death within 6 months" can request life-ending medication.
Mills said on Wednesday that alongside signing the Death with Dignity Act into law, she had issued an executive order mandating the state track use of the law. "Some argue that enactment of equates to the government authorizing taking life, or 'playing God' with the lives of our citizens," Mills said, according to her office."It is not up to the government to decide who may die and who may live, when they shall die or how long they shall live.
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