The Newsday Editorial Board states, "The legal ability to take your own life, in whatever narrow parameters at the start, can eventually devolve into hardly any restrictions on doing so. The American Medical Association opposes these laws as a contradiction of a physician's duty to provide care."

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Sharon Shapiro-Lacks, board member for the Brooklyn Center for Independence for the Disabled, said “Kathy Hochul could not get that this is not a religious issue, that we were objecting to the systemic issue that doctors would be making the call as to who has a rational cause to want to end their life prematurely.”

Quinn H. Gibson, assistant professor of philosophy at Clemson University, declares, "Autonomy is a central moral and political value. But we can’t think of autonomy simply as greater freedom of choice. Rather, autonomy is about self-determination — being the author, as it were, of one’s own life. This kind of self-determination is meaningful only when people have the social and material support necessary to live decent, and ideally flourishing, lives. A society that respected autonomy in this deeper sense would do a better job caring for those suffering grievously than offering them a publicly funded death."

Andrea Peyser, columnist, writes, "The new law is supposed to protect those who probably shouldn’t die from making unalterable decisions by enacting safeguards, including requiring death candidates to undergo mental-health evaluations and in-person visits by physicians. But I see nothing in the statute that saves people who’ve simply gone along with this race off a cliff.."

The Patients' Rights Action Fund (PRAF) is a 501(c)(4) and a leading national, non-partisan single-issue organization that protects the rights of patients, people with disabilities, older adults, and other historically underrepresented groups from deadly harm and discrimination inherent in assisted suicide laws.

The Institute for Patients' Rights (IPR) is a 501(c)(3) founded to conduct research, educates the public, and work to expand and implement tools of empowerment for older adults, people with disabilities, marginalized persons, and their families to combat policies and medical practices that devalue some people’s lives, putting them at great risk of deadly harm, as with assisted suicide laws.

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