Aid-in-Dying Advocates Seek to Join Defense of Colorado Law

Compassion & Choices Action Network, a national advocacy group for laws that enable terminally ill people to end their lives on their own terms, told a federal court it would like to help defend Colorado’s medical aid in dying law.

The group, joined by patients and providers, moved to intervene Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging Colorado’s End of Life Options Act, saying the state defendants might not adequately represent their narrower and more “personal” interests in maintaining this option for the state’s citizens. The US District Court for the District of Colorado should grant the group intervention as of right ...