State assembly pursues legal medically supported death regulations

Only one day after Governor Kathy Hochul announced that she had concluded a budget contract, the democratically controlled state assembly spent hours debated and then a legislative submission that would be legalized, which is called “medical help in dying” and is also known as assisted suicide.

However, it is still unclear whether the Senate or Hochul supports it.

After five hours of the debate, the State Assembly did not approved a budget contract on Tuesday, but instead signed an invoice that allows medically supported death.

The measure was adopted with 81 “yes” votes on 67 “No” votes.

According to the legislative template, terminally ill adults at six months or less could be left and are mentally competent to apply for lifelong medication.

Witnesses would have to be present that two doctors had to deregister and a psychiatric evaluation could be requested.

“Here we have enormous protective measures. Two doctors have to confirm that there is no compulsion,” said the meeting woman of the State Assembly, Amy Paulin, a democrat who represents Scarsdale, and also the sponsor of legislation. “If there is a suspicion of coercion, he is pursued by criminal law and again we have not seen any data, we have not seen any law enforcement.”

Nevertheless, there are warnings from both sides of the aisle.

“Essentially, they send a person home with a life of life!” Michael Durso, a Republican meeting man from the Nassau district, said.

“Some people call this choice to say goodbye peacefully, while others call it suicide,” added rodneynse Bichotte Hermonyn Rodney Bichotte Hermonyn from Brooklyn.

“My concern and the opposition to this calculation are based on the great risk of targeting color communities in need of protection, since they continue to be historical health differences that they continue to face,” she added.

If the Senate passed and signed by the governor, the draft law would become the law. A spokesman for the Senate told NY1 that the democratic conference had not spoken about the law this year.

When asked where she stands, Hochul said to NY1 on Thursday: “I never talk about what I will do until I do it.”

For the moment, the lawyers say they turned to a milestone.

“It was very difficult to see them and really think about giving people in this last chapter, but I think we saw on this point that there were enough legislators in Albany in the conversation,” said Corinne Carey, Senior Campiagn Director for Compassion and Selection.

Although public hearings took place in 2018, before Tuesday, legislation was never coordinated from committees of assembly.

Like the Catholic Church, opponents argue that the timing is eliminated.

“Why would the legislator choose in the middle of a budgetary campaign to lead this draft law?” Dennis Poust, executive director of the New York State Catholic Conference, said. “Then boom! It's on the floor. It's really bad government. No matter what you think about the bill.”

If New York is adopted, he would pursue the deaths and require the underlying conditions to be listed.

“There is robust reporting that the doctors demand that they report to the Ministry of Health, how many recipes were written,” said Carey. “Death certificates are used to determine how resources and attention are guided to diseases that are plagued New York. We want to know whether people die of cancer.”

Ten states and Washington, DC, have already legalized medical help in dying.

“We all know that we will die and certainly in the Catholic Church that we bring to heaven. We are not about stopping death at all costs, but it is how you do it. And do you make the doctor a murderer?” Said Poust.

Bill Supporters said NY1 that doctors could unsubscribe from the prescription of the treatment.