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New York Post
30-04-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
New York inches closer to legal-suicide madness — gov, you gotta stop it!
Albany's progressives have taken one step closer to utterly surrendering what little remains of their moral center: The Assembly, as threatened by Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx), passed a monstrous bill legalizing assisted suicide. 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.
New York Post
24-04-2025
- Health
- New York Post
Gov. Hochul, make sure New York's assisted suicide bill NEVER becomes law
New York's progressive legislators have reportedly gotten behind what may be their most morally disgraceful bill yet: an assisted-suicide legalization push. Worse, per Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx), the bill has the votes to pass, which may happen as early as next week. This must. Not. Happen. Assisted suicide is sold to the public as a form of compassion — yet another inversion of reality. In practice, it is anything but. The trouble is, the promised reservation of assisted suicide to the chronically ill and elderly seems somehow always to get expanded. Until it encompasses young, physically healthy people like Zoraya ter Beek, whom the Dutch state permitted to take her own life because she was depressed. Or, as is the case with Canada, the poor, the disabled and the marginalized. Like Alan Nichols, a down-on-his-luck man with a history of mental illness who listed 'hearing loss' as the only health reason for his own euthanasia — which, shockingly, was then granted. The Trudeau government even tried to sell veteran and paralympian Christine Gauthier on suicide, simply because she fought to have the Veterans' Affairs department install a wheelchair ramp at her house. The idea that fiscal calculations, i.e. that it's cheaper simply to kill people like Nichols and Gauthier than to help them, didn't play some role here is dubious, at best. In the US, Oregon — the pioneer on OKing this insanity — is already mulling the idea of expanding the class of people authorized to prescribe suicide drugs to include nurse practitioners and vastly shortening the wait time from 15 to two days. Vermont might include literal quacks on the list of people allowed to help people kill themselves. It's the slipperiest of slippery slopes, in other words. And a slap in the face to the nearly 3 million Catholics in the state who oppose assisted suicide on religious grounds. And this is New York, remember, where the state couldn't even manage to roll out a legal cannabis initiative without turning it into a complete disaster. And where within recent memory, a governor shoved old people with COVID into nursing homes to die and kill others just to make himself look better on television and earn $5 million from a book. Even under the sanest and stablest of governments, state-sanctioned euthanasia is obscene. Here, it would be a Boschian nightmare. Gov. Hochul, this issue is an easy win: Keep fighting the good fight, stand up to the extremists in your own party and stop this madness if and when it reaches your desk.
