Vermont expands assisted suicide law to non-residents.

Vermont has become the first state to remove the residency requirement from its law on medically assisted death, allowing terminally ill people from out of state access to life-ending care. The law, which has permitted doctors to prescribe life-ending medication to terminally ill people for a decade, was amended following a legal battle brought against the state by a 75-year-old resident of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Several other states and the District of Columbia allow terminally ill residents access to life-ending treatments, but most do not permit nonresidents to access their care.