NYS Legislature Amends Health Care Law to Protect Patients

Patients Entitled to be Offered Treatment According to Halacha

«The New York State legislature has passed a vital amendment to the state's Public Health Law, ensuring that patients in the end stages of life will be informed of all their options, including their right to ongoing medical treatments as well as palliative care.

Agudath Israel of America, which advocated for the amendment, hailed the development as "a major breakthrough in our efforts to protect the rights of patients to receive medical treatment in accordance with halacha."»



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