updated Mon June 21, 2021
Dan Boyd | 6/17/2021 | Albuquerque Journal
SANTA FE – For advocates of legislation allowing terminally ill New Mexicans to end their own lives with the help of prescribed medication, Friday has been a long time coming.
But, for critics, it marks the first step down a path they’d long tried to block.
A new aid-in-dying law, which drew emotional debate at the Roundhouse in recent years before finally winning approval this year, is one of nearly 70 new laws set to take effect Friday.