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(Alliance Defending Freedom) Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a Christian doctor and the Christian Medical & Dental Associations sued the state of New Mexico Wednesday for enacting a law that requires doctors to facilitate physician assisted suicide in ways that violate their religious convictions and professional ethics.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The federal lawsuit<\/a> explains that, despite historic condemnations of assisted suicide, New Mexico enacted the Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act in 2021. The law requires physicians who are conscientious objectors to facilitate suicide by informing patients about assisted suicide and referring patients to physicians and organizations who will participate in ending their lives. If physicians decline to participate based on their religious beliefs or professional ethics, they can face substantial criminal, civil, administrative, and professional liability, including risking losing their medical licenses.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNew Mexico is unlawfully compelling physicians to speak a certain message about assisted suicide, even if they object for reasons of conscience or faith,\u201d said ADF Senior Counsel Mark Lippelmann. \u201cThe Christian doctors we represent believe that every life is sacred and full of inherent value, and that assisted suicide ends an innocent human life without justification. The government should not force doctors to surrender their religious, moral, and ethical convictions.\u201d<\/p>\n

CMDA is a national association of conscientious Christian health care professionals whose personal religious convictions and professional ethics oppose the practice of assisted suicide. Dr. Mark Lacy, a member of CMDA, is a licensed physician in New Mexico who is also joining the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

ADF attorneys filed the suit, Lacy v. Balderas<\/em>, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. ADF attorneys are litigating a similar case<\/a> in California on behalf of CMDA and a physician in that state.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This press release was originally published at Alliance Defending Freedom.<\/i><\/p>\n

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(Alliance Defending Freedom) Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a Christian doctor and the Christian Medical & Dental Associations sued the state of New Mexico Wednesday for enacting a law that requires doctors to facilitate physician assisted suicide in ways that violate their religious convictions and professional ethics. 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