Posted on 01/09/2024 4:42:14 PM PST by Morgana
Assisted suicide bills have currently been introduced in 10 US states including: Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. We expect several more states to introduce an assisted suicide bill in 2024.
Some of the assisted suicide bills are being debated in states that are not likely to legalized assisted suicide, while other states are more concerning. All of these bills should be treated seriously
No new state has legalized assisted suicide in the past two years but the assisted suicide lobby remains relectless.
The assisted suicide lobby has failed to legalize assisted suicide in any new state over the last 2 years but they have expanded assisted suicide laws in states that have legalized assisted suicide.
The key to holding the line on assisted suicide is to stop states from legalizing it. The key to defeating an assisted suicide bill is to call it what it is. The purpose of assisted suicide is to cause death.
The other key to defeating assisted suicide bills is to clearly explain what the assisted suicide bill says. Those who support assisted suicide will vote based on ideology but many legislators will agree that the language of legislation is fundamental.
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It is important to be clear. The assisted suicide lobby will use false terminology and try to sell assisted suicide as a form of healthcare that provide “choice” at the end-of-life. Assisted suicide is not healthcare or aid in dying and it provides death at the end of life.
The assisted suicide lobby has claims that there is no slippery slope, yet, in the past few years nearly every assisted suicide law has been expanded by: reducing or eliminating the waiting periods, allowing non-doctors to participate in assisted suicide, allowing assisted suicide approvals by tele-health, expanding the meaning of terminal illness and removing the state residency requirement. For instance, Amy Paulin who has sponsored the New York assisted suicide bill has said that they need to get the bill passed first and then expand it later.
J.M. Sorrell, Executive Director of Massachusetts Death with Dignity, was quoted on a similar bill as saying,
“Once you get something passed, you can always work on amendments later.”
One of our greatest concerns is that the assisted suicide lobby have forced Oregon and Vermont to remove their residency requirement and now New Jersey is facing similar pressure to permit assisted suicide tourism.
In October 2021, the assisted suicide lobby launched a court case challenging the Oregon assisted suicide residency requirement. Instead of defending the residency requirement, the Oregon government, in March, 2022 agreed to remove the residency requirement.
A February 2023 article by James Reinl for the Daily Mail reported that Dr Nicholas Gideonse had opened the first assisted suicide clinic in Oregon to prescribe lethal assisted suicide drugs for death tourists. At least one person from Texas and an east coast resident has died by assisted suicide in Oregon
In August, 2022, the assisted suicide lobby launched a lawsuit challenging Vermont’s assisted suicide residency requirement.
Lisa Rathke reported in March, 2023 for the Associated Press that Vermont’s attorney general’s office reached an agreement with the assisted suicide lobby and dropped the Vermont assisted suicide residency requirement.
In August, 2023 the assisted suicide lobby launched a lawsuit to force the state of New Jersey to drop its assisted suicide residency requirement. The lawsuit claims that the New Jersey assisted suicide law is unconstitutional because it denies equal treatment.
If the residency requirement in the New Jersey assisted suicide law is removed, the assisted suicide lobby will establish an assisted suicide clinic in New Jersey to assist the suicides of people in the neighboring states that have not legalized assisted suicide. The assisted suicide lobby is aware that they will not legalize assisted suicide in every state but by forcing states to permit suicide tourism, assisted suicide will then become available to every American. The good news is that in April 2023, The United Spinal Association, Not Dead Yet, Institute for Patients’ Rights, Communities Actively Living Independent and Free, Lonnie VanHook, and Ingrid Tischer have launched a lawsuit to strike down the California assisted suicide law with the goal of the case going to the United States Supreme Court to strike down assisted laws throughout the US. (Link to the complaint).
The case asserts that the assisted suicide act is a discriminatory scheme, which creates a two-tiered medical system in which people who are suicidal receive radically different treatment responses by their physicians and protections from the State depending on whether the person has what the physician deems to be a “terminal disease”—which, by definition, is a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act. (Link to the article).
They’re trying to turn the U.S. into Canada. When you go to the doctor for a hangnail they’ll suggest euthanasia.
I’m shocked Minnesota is not among them. This is one of the devil’s favorite states.
” They’re trying to turn the U.S. into Canada. When you go to the doctor for a hangnail they’ll suggest euthanasia. “
For Canada, as the health care system goes further into financial crisis they keep removing various procedures and treatments from insured services.
The last three remaining will be: abortion, sex change operation, Medically assisted suicide.
Should be better / more intense palliative care, not suicide.
Nonsense. The term killing humans is not in the bills. It merely allows for the termination of carbon based life forms. That seems pretty innocuous.
Under the conditions you described, I would agree.
Agreed. I would never myself want to live as a crippled or disabled old man. Nobody asked me if I wanted to come into this world but I should have a say so in how I want to leave it.Every one should have the dignity to leave this world when they want to end it.
Agreed, although you will catch hell on this forum.
As we know from our experience of moral issues in most of our lifetimes, the slippery-slope of the Culture of Death is well greased. Very quickly the “right to die” will soon transmogrify into the “obligation to die.” Governments and doctors will decide what individuals are desirable to be allowed to live, while the sick, old, and “imperfect” will be expected— and even forced— to get it over with and stop burdening everyone else.
I would agree with you. My wife and I have no children or anyone we can rely on as we age. If she goes first (and she is older by 9 years), the. I get sick…I would rather have an option to end it with dignity rather than suffer, become a burden for someone else, or wind up in a nursing home to stare at four walls while I wait to die. That’s not life anymore.
You get a TRIPLE AMEN from me on that statement.
They love abortion, but don’t want people to off themselves, or at least didn’t until recently. Then they studiously protect murderers so they can use them for population control with new victims. They hate the death penalty. What an insane bunch.
Informed consent. What’s wrong with that?
Libertarian dittos.
My hub as a classmate taking the “pill” tomorrow...he is 72...and in pain...his wife died a few years ago. Both heavy smokers. I guess he’s decided it is time.
In difficult agreement, FRiend.
Me too, I thought our Gopher State would have been number one. Maybe our atty general is too busy fishing for the next tobacco settlement.
I haven’t seen too many “recent immigrants”. It’s too cold up here. The guys (no matter what color or nationality) who are walking around or shoveling their driveways wearing flip-flops and shorts are Native Minnesotains.
By the way, anybody can kill themselves any time they want. Why get the State involved?
...I would never myself want to live as a crippled or disabled old man. ...
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Dear Mr. East Forks (not Grand Forks, ND)
I am an advocate for a crippled disable man. 55 yo, quad. He wants to live. It’s my “job” to visit him everyday, make sure that he isn’t too neglected and put on his favorite sports shows. Scott WANTS TO LIVE.
I hope that one day you have loved ones who love you enough to want you to live until God decides it’s time for you to go. Scott’s pastor told me this: Scott will die in God’s time. I am not qualified to decide if he should live or die.
I am a 71 yo man who has and still do hunt,fish,rebuild old houses and am out and about everyday and have every day of my life. I would never want to burden anyone with having to take care of me.
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