Stop the suicide bill dead in its tracks, senators!

New York Post

19-05-2025

Now that New York's Assembly has approved the assisted-suicide bill, the state Senate has a chance to stop the morally repellent madness.
It's believed Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins will set aside any personal doubts she may have to bring it up for passage if enough Democratic senators back it: We beg them all to err on the side of caution, and keep this horror off the floor.
Look to the brave Democratic dissenters in the other chamber, figures like Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes and Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn.
They had the courage to stand up and say no.
The measure is sold as simple mercy for the terminally ill, but it's no such thing.
Just for starters: Why force doctors, sworn to protect life, into helping end it?
And don't tell us this is about making suicide 'safe.'
Such contradictions show what this is really about: Taking the first step down the 'mercy killing' road first on the way to outright state murder of the sick, then the old, then the weak.
As the examples of Europe and Canada show us, it never stops where advocates claim it will.
Canada's assisted-suicide program has already deployed against a mentally ill man who cited 'hearing loss' as the reason he wanted to die.
In another case, a disabled veteran who had the gall to ask the government to install a wheelchair ramp at her house was instead given a hard sell on state-sponsored death (she refused and blew the whistle on the outrage).
In the Netherlands, 'mercy' has progressed to euthanasia for autism and depression.
And at least one US state-legislature bill would expand the circle of people allowed to give you death drugs to include naturopaths — 'doctors' with zero medical training.
New York's bill doesn't even specify which drugs could legally go into these death cocktails — proving it's not about dignity or freedom or anything like that.
It's about state endorsement of the certainty that some lives aren't worth living —which inevitably leads to the state action on that 'principle' to snuff out the lives of sick, crazy and emotionally vulnerable people.
Just think how much money we could save!
That's all it has ever been about, despite the pseudohumanitarian whining of the death lobby.
This is vastly different from accepting that death is coming and refusing extraordinary measures: Hospice care is genuine mercy, far different from any 'helping hand.'
Per the most recent reporting, there's real skepticism even among Senate Democrats around the bill — as there should be.
Note, too, that the Labor supermajority in Britain's Parliament is having serious doubts as it considers final passage of a similar bill.
The longer anyone considers this idea, the worse it seems; no wonder its supporters want to rush it through.
Do the right thing, senators. Let this one die an utterly undignified death before it comes to the floor.