By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. My family and I will be on vacation through September 7. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” -- the stories our readers have told us they especially liked over the last five...
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New Mexico Senate Committee rejects two pro-life bills
By Dave Andrusko The New Mexico Senate Public Affairs Committee Tuesday tabled two bills which would have banned abortions after 20 weeks, if the baby were determined to be viable. One bill (243) included an exception for the life of the mother, the other (242) also...
University of New Mexico halts training program with late-term abortion facility
By Carole Novielli The Albuquerque Journal newspaper reports that the University of New Mexico (a publicly-funded institution) has halted a training program using abortionists from the late-term abortion facility Southwestern Women’s Options. Owned by Texas...
New Mexico Supreme Court will review decision upholding state’s law against assisted suicide
By Dave Andrusko It was the briefest of Associated Press items, only 124 words long. The headline to the September 1 story was “New Mexico court schedules arguments on assisted suicide” It was a reminder that the pro-physician-assisted suicide forces never rest, never...
New Mexico Court of Appeals overturns ruling that allowed assisted suicide
By Dave Andrusko In January 2014, Bernalillo County District Court Judge Nan Nash struck the decades-old New Mexico law which protected the state’s citizens from assisted suicide. Ruling in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU of New Mexico and Compassion & Choices,...
New Mexico Court of Appeals hears oral arguments in challenge to state’s law protecting people from assisted suicide
By Dave Andrusko When last we reported on the lawsuit challenging the decades-old New Mexico law protecting the state’s citizens from assisted suicide, the attorney general had just announced he was appealing Judge Nan G. Nash’s decision that killing a...
Abortion chain to open facility in New Mexico to skirt Texas abortion restrictions
By Lauren Enriquez Big Abortion has proven once again that its main concern is the bottom line. Amidst lamentation over so-called “lack of access to abortion care” in Texas, rather than provide that access by building law-compliant abortion mills, Whole Woman’s...
New Mexico Attorney General appeals assisted suicide lower court decision
By Alex Schadenberg, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition - International Chair Today we learned that Gary King, the New Mexico Attorney General, has appealed a lower court decision that found a right to assisted suicide in the New Mexico State Constitution. In...
New Mexico Court Ruling on Assisting Suicide Endangers the Vulnerable
By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics On Monday, Judge Nan G. Nash of the Second District Court in Albuquerque struck the decades-old New Mexico law which protected the state’s citizens from assisted suicide. Ruling in a lawsuit brought...
New Mexico Court Ruling on Assisting Suicide Endangers the Vulnerable
WASHINGTON – Last night, Judge Nan G. Nash of the Second District Court in Albuquerque struck the decades-old New Mexico law which protected the state’s citizens from assisted suicide, claiming that killing a terminally ill patient with that person’s consent is...