New York State Task Force on Life and the Law Reports 1985 - 2017
The NYS Task Force on Life and the Law is a multidisciplinary advisory body formed to study and recommend public policies for New York State on bioethical issues. Active from 1985 – 2020, the Task Force issued many highly-regarded reports that influenced NYS laws, regulations and judicial decisions. ESBC is hosting those reports on its website to make them more accessible to the public and the bioethics community.
Allocation of ventilators in a pandemic
Dietary supplements
End-of-life decision-making / decisions for incapable patients
- Do Not Resuscitate Orders (1986)
- The Determination of Death (1986)
- Life-Sustaining Treatment: Making Decisions and Appointing a Health Care Agent (1987)
- When Others Must Choose: Deciding for Patients Without Capacity (1992)
- When Death is Sought: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context (1994)
- Recommendation Regarding the Extension of the Family Health Care Decisions Act to Include Hospice (2010)
- Recommendations for Extending the Family Health Care Decisions Act to Medicare and/or Medicaid-Certified and State-Licensed Agencies, Programs, and Settings (2013)
- Recommendations for Amending the Family Health Care Decisions Act to Include Health Care Decisions for Persons with Developmental Disabilities and Patients in or Transferred from Mental Health Facilities (2016)
Genetic testing and genomic medicine
Human subjects research
Organ and tissue procurement, allocation and transplantation
Reproductive and beginning-of-life Issues
- Fetal Extrauterine Survivability (1988)
- Surrogate Parenting: Analysis and Recommendations for Public Policy (1988)
- Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Analysis and Recommendations for Public Policy (1988)
- Revisiting Surrogate Parenting: Analysis and Recommendations for Public Policy on Gestational Surrogacy (2016)
Empire State Bioethics Consortium Consensus Statement
Empire State Bioethics Consortium Consensus Statement March 1, 2025.pdf