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December 23, 2025

Euthanasia Comes to New York

An assault on the Jewish conscience.

Last week, the New York State governor Kathy Hochul announced that she will sign a bill legalizing what it euphemistically calls “medical assistance in dying.” In analyzing the moral perils of such legislation, Jonathan Rosenblum points to the example of Canada, where such laws have rapidly expanded in scope. Canadian physicians can lose their licenses if they don’t refer patients to other doctors willing to kill them, putting many doctors—devout Jews among them—in a difficult situation: 

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