New York inches closer to legal-suicide madness — gov, you gotta stop it!
As it stands, the bill is restricted to mentally competent adults with a terminal diagnosis and six months or less to live, allowing them to ask for and be prescribed drugs that will kill them.
Proponents sell such bills with pablum, such as: Who are we to interfere with anyone's choices? And it's the compassionate thing to do!
Never mind that suicide just isn't that hard to do, that no one needs an MD's help to do it, nor that such laws inevitably pressure doctors to ignore their own ethics, including the Hippocratic oath.
But the biggest lie of all is: It's limited in scope to those already dying. Why do you even care?
Because the suicide enthusiasts inevitably move on from these laws to campaigning to extend 'voluntary' euthanasia to others.
Like Zoraya ter Beek, a physically healthy young woman in the Netherlands, who was allowed to kill herself because of depression.
Sometimes, the enthusiasm of the state to 'assist' people into suicide takes on fiscal-savings overtones, as with the case of Canadian paralympian Christine Gauthier: The government tried to get her to kill herself after she asked for a wheelchair ramp to be installed at her house.
In America, advocates have gotten bills into various state legislatures meant to expand the range of people allowed to prescribe the deadly drugs (in the case of Vermont, they want some non-doctors to be able to do it).
Happily, the New York bill saw significant Dem breakaway during Assembly passage, with around 20 crossing the aisle to vote 'nay,' including Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes (D-Erie).
And Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousin is being coy about the bill's prospects in her house.
Gov. Hochul, your path is clear.
If the bill reaches your desk, veto it; there's plenty of opposition even within your own party.
Don't let another exercise in faux compassion devalue human life in the Empire State even more.
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