Physician–Assisted Suicide and Maryland’s End-of-Life Option Act
Journal: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository (USMAI Consortium)
Year: 2022

This paper uses the National Association of Social Workers’ Code of Ethics to analyze Maryland’s End-of-Life Option Act (2020). It will gauge how social workers following the code of ethics should position themselves in advocating for or against prospective aid-in-dying legislation. There is a well-documented need for physician-assisted suicide within terminally ill populations. Maryland’s End-of-Life Option Act, which failed to pass in the latter half of 2020, attempted to address this need by