Judge Denies Disability Groups' Motion to Block Illinois Medical Aid in Dying Law From Taking Effect Saturday
U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp rejected a bid to block the law, which allows terminally ill patients to seek prescription medication to end their lives.
- On Saturday, Illinois' End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act takes effect after U.S. District Judge John Tharp denied a request to block the measure.
- Disability rights advocates, including Ebony Payne, filed a federal lawsuit earlier this year arguing the statute violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by making end-of-life care part of the "standard of care" for doctors.
- In his 25-page decision, Tharp found plaintiffs failed to establish "concrete and imminent future injury," ruling Payne's risk of injury is "too speculative and conjectural to satisfy the injury requirement of standing."
- Plaintiffs have 30 days to show why the lawsuit should not be dismissed, though U.S. District Judge John Tharp dismissed Governor JB Pritzker as a defendant, leaving Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Sameer Vohra as the sole remaining defendant.
- A separate lawsuit filed by Cardinal Blase Cupich and the Chicago Archdiocese seeks to block the law on religious grounds, with Cupich noting Pope Leo XIV expressed disappointment when Governor Pritzker visited the Vatican in recent months.
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Dispatch ArgusJudge declines to block Illinois’ ‘medical aid in dying’ law ahead of Sept. 12 start
Illinois is set to become the first Midwestern state to allow terminally ill patients to seek life-ending medication from their physicians when the law goes into effect on Saturday.
Judge denies disability groups' motion to block Illinois medical aid in dying law from taking effect Saturday
A federal judge denied a motion to block the start of Illinois' medical aid in dying law from taking effect this weekend, following a lawsuit filed by disability rights advocates.
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* Tribune… A federal judge on Thursday denied disability rights advocates’ request to block an Illinois law going into effect this weekend that lets terminally ill patients obtain prescription medication to end their lives. The ruling came in a federal lawsuit filed earlier this year by two disabled patients, a doctor and several disability and patients’ rights [...]
Federal judge denies bid to block Illinois’ medical aid-in-dying law from taking effect Saturday – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo
"The Act exempts healthcare professionals from any duty to provide aid-in-dying care, states that a healthcare provider 'may choose not to engage in aid-in-dying care,' and provides that 'only willing healthcare professionals shall provide aid-in-dying care in accordance with the Act," U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp wrote.
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