Eight states and Washington, DC, permit medically assisted death for their own residents.
Maryland considered an assisted suicide bill this year.
Oregon and Vermont allow doctors to help patients from other states kill themselves.
Roughly 8,700 Americans have died by assisted suicide since 1997, when Oregon became the first state to legalize it.
Speaker Mike Johnson this month blasted the United Kingdom’s brand-new assisted suicide law, which will allow doctors to help terminally ill patients end their lives.
“Any society that rejects that truth about life as a gift from our creator and adopts a culture of death . . . is in the process of crumbling,” Johnson (R-La.) warned.
He’s right. Alas, parts of America already welcome assisted suicide.
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Eight states and Washington, DC, permit medically assisted death for their own residents.
Maryland considered an assisted suicide bill this year.
Oregon and Vermont allow doctors to help patients from other states kill themselves.
Roughly 8,700 Americans have died by assisted suicide since 1997, when Oregon became the first state to legalize it.
Speaker Mike Johnson this month blasted the United Kingdom’s brand-new assisted suicide law, which will allow doctors to help terminally ill patients end their lives.
“Any society that rejects that truth about life as a gift from our creator and adopts a culture of death . . . is in the process of crumbling,” Johnson (R-La.) warned.
He’s right. Alas, parts of America already welcome assisted suicide.
Read the entire op-ed here.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.