State-Sanctioned Suicide – Update

Please contact you NYS Senator now to register you support for life affirming care, not State-Sanctioned Suicide (euphemistically called Medical Aid in Dying, aka MAiD).

This may be coming up for a vote soon…

Lawmakers expect to vote on the late state budget next week, which would leave just over a month left of session to address other business.

…”next week” will start on Monday, May 19, so now is the time to act!

While any and all State-Sanctioned Suicide is categorically wrong, it is worth noting that even for those in favor, this bill has serious flaws:

Modern medicine can alleviate almost all physical pain, but we need to do better addressing existential suffering. The response to suffering should never be to end the sufferer.

The bill has no residency requirement, no waiting period, no requirement for a psychiatric evaluation and no oversight of lethal medications. The bill applies to those not terminal with treatment, e.g., Type I diabetes. Pressure to expand assisted suicide to children, the healthy but tired-of-life, the cognitively impaired and others worthy of both life and our care is inevitable. This bill rejects human duty toward each other and would lead to euthanasia and involuntary deaths

Remember, any supposed “safeguards” will eventually be removed. They just don’t stick.

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