NEW YORK—Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Dec. 17 that she will be signing the Medical Aid in Dying Act when the Legislature returns to Albany on Jan. 7.
She said her changes to the bill were approved by its sponsor and legislative leaders. The bill would allow the terminally ill, those who have less than six months to live, to ask for assisted suicide. Faith and religiously affiliated healthcare facilities and religious doctors would not have to provide the service.
Hochul wrote about her reasoning and decision to support the bill in an op-ed in the Times Union, published on Dec. 17. She said she believes that the government should allow people to have this option….