A Massachusetts judge has held that two doctors can step ahead with the right-to-die lawsuit seeking an order that the state's murder and also manslaughter laws will not apply to the physicians who provide lethal medications to the terminally ill patients.

The Superior Court Judge, Mary Ames in the Boston in a ruling in the last week has declined to dismiss the lawsuit by two doctors, one of whom is suffering from the cancer, who argued that the cloud of uncertainty was preventing the physicians from providing such lethal medications.

The doctors have proven that there is a controversy regarding the law which is worth for the court's time to consider, Ames said in a decision, noting that she still did not made a determination on the merits of the doctors argument.

The doctors lawsuit also aims to include Massachusetts among the states such as Oregon, Washington, Vermont, California and Colorado and also the District of Columbia which allow the physicians to provide an aid in dying, according to the right-to-die advocates.

The Massachusetts ruling was a answer to the lawsuit by Roger Kligler, a retired doctor who is diagnosed with the stage-four prostate cancer, and also Alan Steinbach, a physician who said he is willing to write the prescriptions for lethal medication but fears for prosecution.

The lawsuit also seeks a ruling holding that the manslaughter charges cannot be applied to the physicians who write a prescription to the terminally ill competent adults who request the medication that they can choose to self-administer to aid in their death.

A spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Attorney General, Maura Healey, who has been named as the defendant along with the Cape and Islands County district attorney and is defending the case has declined to comment.

Healey's office had argued in the court that, they should defer to the state legislature in order to decide the issue and also ensure that the safeguards are enacted to protect the vulnerable patients and also the integrity of the medical community.

Lawsuit is being pursued by the nonprofit right-to-die organization, Compassion & Choices.

The Massachusetts law has considered, but it never enacted the legislation to allow physicians in order to provide aid in dying. In the year 2012, voters narrowly defeated the ballot initiative which could have legalized the practice.

Mrudula Duddempudi.