As medical aid-in-dying laws continue to spread across the country, a New York-based physician and ethicist is warning about the dangerous ripple effects that can follow laws intended to ease suffering. “I can completely empathize with the sense that this is a very effective and efficient way to end suffering,” Dr. Lydia Dugdale told Fox News Digital. “But are we creating new problems by normalizing the taking of life or the taking of one’s own life?” Dugdale, the Dorothy L. and Daniel H.