IN the NEWS - Euthanasia via Telemedicine?

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"House Bill 90 was introduced in New Mexico by Deborah Armstrong (Dem) to legalize assisted

suicide. The bill is referred to as The Elizabeth Whitefield End of Life Options Act.
It allows assisted suicide for psychiatric conditions, to be done to someone with an undefined "terminal prognosis," to be done by nurses and physician assistants, and it even allows it to be approved via telemedicine.
The language of the legislation determines parameters of the law. HB 90 is wider than any previous assisted suicide bill:

1. The bill allows nurses and physician assistants to participate in assisted suicide by defining "health care provider" to include: a licensed physician, a licensed osteopathic physician, a licensed nurse, and a licensed physician assistant. 
2. The bill does not require the person to "self administer." The bill states "may self-administer." This means that euthanasia is possible.
3. The bill allows people with mental health disorders to die by assisted suicide. The bill enables a licensed psychiatrist, psychologist, master social worker, psychiatric nurse practitioner or professional clinical mental health counselor to approve assisted suicide for these people.
4. The bill does not require a second assessor unless the person has a mental health disorder or intellectual disability. 
5. The bill allows the "health care provider" to approve death via "telemedicine."
6. The bill replaces a 6 month terminal diagnosis with an undefined term: "foreseeable future." What does it mean that your terminal illness may cause death in the foreseeable future?
7. The bill reduces the waiting period to 48 hours to receive the lethal drugs.
8. The bill requires health care providers to falsify the death certificate.
9. The bill provides legal protection for anyone who participates in the act.
10. The bill removes conscience rights for health care providers who object to assisted suicide by requiring them to refer patients to a health care provider who is willing to prescribe assisted suicide.
11. The bill lacks a residency requirement. Combined with the telemedicine provision, the bill would legalize assisted suicide in all 50 US States.
12. The bill basis decisions and action on a "good faith compliance." "Good faith compliance" is the lowest level of oversight. It is impossible to prove that someone who participated in the act did not do so in "good faith."

Section 4 of the bill enables people with mental health disorders and intellectual disabilities to die by assisted suicide. The bill requires people with a mental health disorder or intellectual disability to be evaluated by one of the persons listed above (#3). The bill enables the mental health counselor to approve assisted suicide after one visit or after an assessment by "telemedicine."
Therefore a person who lives with intellectual disabilities or a mental health disorder can be approved for assisted suicide after speaking to a mental health counselor by telemedicine."
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