Maryland lawmakers aren’t yet ready to allow terminally ill patients in the state to choose when to die. Efforts to legalize medical aid-in-dying have fallen short once again in Annapolis. “If the votes aren’t there, the votes aren’t there,” Senate President Bill Ferguson said Friday as he announced that the bill will not come up for a vote this year. “We are not going to be taking a vote on the bill this session, as it does not appear we have the votes to pass it in the Senate,” Ferguson said, acknowledging that the bill could be considered in the future “when we think there’s a better chance of passage.”
