New Mexico
Compassion & Choices-New Mexico works alongside state and local groups and with policy makers to help ensure that everyone can have a peaceful death.
Morris v New Mexico
Aja Riggs, a New Mexico woman with advanced uterine cancer, and physicians Katherine Morris and Aroop Mangalik are asking a New Mexico court to rule that the state’s statute against “assisting suicide” does not cover the medical practice of aid in dying.
The case asserts that the choice of a dying patient for a peaceful death is not ‘suicide’ and the physician does not assist such a patient in ‘committing suicide.’ Laura Schauer Ives, managing attorney for the ACLU of New Mexico, and Compassion & Choices Director of Legal Affairs Kathryn Tucker represent the plaintiffs.
Morris v New Mexico Press Release
Contact your Legislator
Use this link to help you write to your state and federal legislators and tell them how you feel about access to aid-in-dying in New Mexico. It is quick, easy and very important. Please speak out today and help us ensure end-of-life choice to all patients.
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Plan Ahead
If your end-of-life plans aren’t in place yet, download and complete the following Advance Directive:
New Mexico State Approved Advance Directive
Find Out More
Contact Compassion & Choices-New Mexico Campaign Manager Erin Marshall at (505) 980-5355 to learn more and get involved.
