Assisted suicide is not a right under the Massachusetts Constitution, the state's Supreme Judicial Court has ruled.
"Although we recognize the paramount importance and profound significance of all end-of-life decisions, after careful consideration, we conclude that the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights does not reach so far as to protect physician-assisted suicide. We conclude as well that the law of manslaughter may prohibit physician-assisted suicide, and does so, without offending constitutional protections," the court said in a decision Monday, December 19.
More Massachusetts children are identifying as non-binary each school year.
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's public school enrollment data used to break down gender into two categories: male and female. However, since the start of the 2019-2020 school year, the state has also been tracking a third gender category: non-binary.
