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Gov. Kathy Hochul announced her support Wednesday for a revised version New York’s Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) bill, legislation that would give terminally ill patients in the state with six months or less to live the option to end their lives using a prescribed lethal cocktail of drugs.
The governor will not sign the version of the MAID bill that the state Legislature approved earlier this year. Rather, Hochul said, she would ink a revised version of the same legislation, agreed upon with the sponsors and legislative leaders, that will be introduced when the Assembly and state Senate reconvene in January.
Hochul made the announcement in an Albany Times-Union opinion piece on Wednesday, in which she called the bill a way to “speed up” the dying process for terminally ill New Yorkers who have been professionally diagnosed to have less than six months to live.
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