Washington Monthly
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12th February 2022
Why Democrats Should Become the Party of Medically Assisted Dying
Deborah Armstrong has always cared about the way people die. The New Mexico state representative began her 45-year career in health care looking after terminally ill children as a physical therapist. Outside of work, she took on caregiving roles for several dying family members and friends, “all of whom,” she says, “suffered greatly.” But end-of-life issues became more acutely personal for Armstrong, a Democrat from Albuquerque, when her daughter Erin’s cancer mutated in 2019 and spread to her b