Hands off D.C.’s, states’ laws on aid-in-dying

The federal government should not intrude on Washington, D.C.’s Death with Dignity Act, as some members of Congress would like to do.
Depriving terminally ill adults in D.C. the option of medical aid-in-dying would not only condemn many to unnecessary suffering, but provide an unwarranted precedent for further intrusions on states with similar laws.
Last December, the D.C. council voted to allow qualifying, terminally ill district residents, in consultation with physicians, to receive end-