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“Some Want A Choice At the End of the Road”

“I’m actually going to take a pen and write a prescription for something that will end someone’s life.” Katherine Morris is one of two New Mexico oncologists bringing a lawsuit that asks the court to make a distinction between “assisting suicide,” which is a felony in New Mexico, and a physician “aiding in dying,” which is doing just what Morris did twice in Oregon — prescribing a lethal dose of medicine, usually Seconal pills.

ABQ Journal
“Some Want A Choice At the End of the Road”
May 20, 2012
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