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“Cancer patient joins NM ‘right-to-die’ law fight”

A Santa Fe woman with advanced uterine cancer said she is joining two doctors in their challenge against a decades-old New Mexico law. Lawyers on behalf of Aja Riggs, 48, intend to argue that the law does not legally prohibit doctors from ending the lives of terminally ill patients.

Boston Globe
“Cancer patient joins NM ‘right-to-die’ law”
May 9, 2012
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