Ebony Payne, a disability advocate, looks through the window of her living room after a judge denied a request for a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit that she filed against "Deb's law" in Chicago, Ill., on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

Jacqueline Davis, left, and her daughter, Ebony Payne, a disability advocate who is quadriplegic, laugh at their home in Chicago, Ill., on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

Ebony Payne, a disability advocate who is a plaintiff in a lawsuit against "Deb's law,″ speaks during an interview in Chicago, Ill., on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

Kate Koubek, foreground, pauses after talking about her wife's terminal illness in front of a pill organizer containing medications for Deb Robertson, right, in the living room of their home in Lombard, Ill., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

Deb Robertson, left, and her wife, Kate Koubek, laugh in the backyard of their home in Lombard, Ill., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

A framed collage of family photos of Deb Robertson and her wife, Kate Koubek, hangs from a wall at their home in Lombard, Ill., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

Deb Robertson, a leading advocate for a medical aid-in-dying law named after her in Illinois, pauses during an interview in her home in Lombard, Ill., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

Attendees wait for Vice President JD Vance to arrive at a rally at Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, N.C., Monday, Sept. 21, 2026. (Kent Nishimura/Pool Photo via AP)