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Oregon ends residency rule for medically assisted suicide

Dr. Nicholas Gideonse poses for a self-portrait at his home in Portland, Ore., on Monday, March 28, 2022. In response to a lawsuit brought by Gideonse and the national medical aid-in-dying advocacy group Compassion & Choices, Oregon on Monday dropped a residency requirement from its death-with-dignity law. (Nicholas Gideonse via AP)

FILE - This Jan. 11, 2018, file photo, shows the state Capitol in Salem, Ore. Oregon has abandoned a requirement that restricted the use of its first-in-the-nation death-with-dignity law to residents of the state, after a lawsuit challenged the requirement as unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, File)

Oregon ends residency rule for medically assisted suicide