New York’s Family Health Care Decisions Act: A Chaplain’s View

March 26, 2010

Of all states, New York has long had the most difficult legal standard for determining whether to withdraw or withhold treatment for dying patients who cannot decide for themselves. That changed on March 16, with the passage of the Family Health Care Decisions Act, which gives surrogates the power to make such decisions in the absence of an advance directive. (Bioethics Forum)