But now, ADF is representing a few religionist doctors and suing the State of New Mexico in federal court over language in the End-of-Life Options Act that they say compels providers with christianic beliefs to inform terminally ill patients of “all reasonable options” then refer sufferers seeking eternal relief to other physicians.
In 2021, over objections from a Roman Church that preys on children and props up dictators, New Mexico's Democratic governor and unpaid legislators passed the law making a death with dignity legal for people with terminal illnesses. Under the statute a patient must be expected to die within six months and be able to self-administer the lethal injection. Some 120 people have made the choice in 2022 including a nurse familiar to Our Lady of the Arroyo.
Colorado passed a similar bill in 2016 and some eight hundred souls have taken advantage of that measure. But frivolous lawsuits have become routine for the far white wing of the Republican Party after a baker refused service to an LGBTQ couple and a website designer sought to test a Colorado law then drove her righteous indignation all the way to the Pontius-packed Supreme Court of the United States.
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