New York Gov. Hochul announced last week that she will sign a bill legalizing medically assisted suicide for adults with a terminal illness.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced in an op-ed last week that she will sign a bill legalizing medical assisted suicide for adults with a terminal illness.
Hochul says she is passing the Medical Aid in Dying Act due to the “genuine and deeply held belief that government must respect the rights and will of the people it serves.” To qualify, an adult must be “mentally competent” and have a “prognosis of six months or less to live,” the bill states.
The bill also makes it clear that anyone who makes the request for medical assisted suicide must not be considered “suicidal” and taking medication to intentionally end one’s life should not be considered a “suicide.”
This move lets New York join the club of 12 states and the District of Columbia that preach suicide as a form of “medical aid in dying.”
Although the act will allow “individual doctors and religiously affiliated health facilities” to decline offering suicide as a form of treatment to those who are suicidal, doctors must “promptly” transfer requesting clients to a health care provider who is “willing to permit the prescribing, dispensing, ordering or self-administering” of suicide medication.
“I heard stories of a parent or spouse pleading for an end to the suffering,” Hochul, whose own mom died from ALS, writes. “I am all too familiar with the pain of seeing someone you love suffer and feeling powerless to stop it.”
I have never had any form of terminal illness, but I watched my mom fight cancer for five years and die. It’s no easy thing to watch and I can conclude it’s even harder to fight. Yet, that doesn’t mean we should let our government allow the terminally ill to kill themselves as a form of so-called “healthcare.”
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| Andrew Schwartz / SplashNews.com |
In this season of joy the Grim Reaper is hovering. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Wednesday that she intends to sign the Medical Aid in Dying Act.
This means New York next month is to join 12 states and the District of Columbia where one can legally off him or herself with doctors’ support and a massive barbiturate overdose.
Right-to-Die ghouls are cheering!
“This law will represent the culmination of more than 10 years of determined, consistent effort by hundreds, no, thousands, of New Yorkers who advocated for this law,” said Corinne Carey, senior campaign director for Compassion & Choices NY/NJ, the ill-named advocacy group whose sole purpose is to remove choice and steer people toward the grave.
Madness.
While legalized suicide is sold to the masses as the compassionate solution to a terminal diagnosis, in practice there’s little empathetic about this soon-to-be law. Instead, the pressure on people to kill themselves has shifted into high gear.
The governor has come to this wrong decision for all the right reasons – she watched her mother die from ALS.
“New York has long been a beacon of freedom, and now it is time we extend that freedom to terminally ill New Yorkers who want the right to die comfortably and on their own terms,” she said, adding, “I am all too familiar with the pain of seeing someone you love suffer and being powerless to stop it. Although this was an incredibly difficult decision, I ultimately determined that with the additional guardrails agreed upon with the legislature, this bill would allow New Yorkers to suffer less – to shorten not their lives, but their deaths.” --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a relevant story:
+++++NY bishops ‘extraordinarily troubled’ by Gov. Hochul’s decision to legalize assisted suicide+++++
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