Last month, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a deal to legalize assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.
The so-called “Medical Aid in Dying Act” is supposed to make it possible for patients expected to die within six months to request a prescription for lethal drugs.
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a similar assisted suicide law in December as well.
Despite the claim that these types of laws contain “safeguards,” patients facing expensive medical care also face pressure to opt for assisted suicide or euthanasia.
In 2019 a Canadian man with ALS made headlines when he chose to take his own life under the country’s assisted suicide and euthanasia laws after the government chose not to provide him with 24-hour home healthcare services due to cost.
In parts of the U.S. where physician-assisted suicide is legal, insurance companies have refused to pay for patients’ medical care, but have offered to cover assisted-suicide drugs.
Arkansas protects innocent human life from conception to natural death. We must resist laws that would pressure people into ending their lives. There is nothing “compassionate” about giving someone a prescription for lethal drugs.
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