State Representative Robyn Gabel (D-Chicago) and some of her colleagues are advocating for legislation that would permit physicians to prescribe lethal drugs for suicide. This proposal directly challenges the core medical tenet of “First, do no harm,” and its passage would mark a deeply concerning ethical departure for Illinois, shifting the focus from health care to death care.
It is a diabolical and demonic scheme.
We know that God has created us in His image and we also know that He views trials and suffering far differently than we do. One look at the cross affirms this. The incomprehensible pain and suffering that Jesus endured with the Father’s approval had an everlasting purpose. One that I am very grateful for. Having said that, we don’t know why God allows pain and suffering for humans. But isn’t it possible that it has a purpose for which only He presently knows?
Taking human life for reasons other than punishing those who have committed heinous crimes, is wrong. Helping a person end their life, whose thinking may even be compromised, is murder. Abortion isn’t enough?
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The Slippery Slope We’re Already On Could Get Much Worse
Proponents claim that it will give suffering individuals end-of-life options for their terminally illness. But we see only one option offered – Death. Consider these broader ideas from proponents pushing aid-in-dying in other states:
J.M. Sorrell, executive director of Massachusetts Death with Dignity, “the hoops you have to go through to get medical aid Once you get something passed, you can always work on amendments later, so I’m working
to be patient.”
Barbara Coombs Lee, former President of Compassion and Choices, regarding people with dementia and cognitive declines, “It is an issue for another day but it is no less compelling.”
A Better Exit advertises that “No Californian should have to leave home to have a comfortable and dignified death.” Their proposal to amend California law would expand eligibility to those with more than 6 months to live and mid-stage dementia to request lethal drug. They are also pushing to eliminate the residency requirement.
According to Not Dead Yet (a disability rights group that opposes assisted suicide), Thaddeus Pope, who is a professor specializing in medical law and a supporter of assisted suicide, envisions eligibility being extended to non-terminal disabled patients. He enthusiastically predicts euthanasia will be available to anyone who can be seen to have a “grievous and irremediable medical condition” and provided free of charge to Medicare recipients with lethal injection as an option.
On February 1, 2024, a new law went into effect in the Netherlands allowing parents to euthanize their children between the ages of 1 and 12 even when the children do not want to be euthanized. The law is an extension of the regulations from the “Committee for the Evaluation of Late Termination of Pregnancy and Termination of Life of Newborns – in existence sine 2005. Professor Eduard Verhagen, Director of the Beatrix UMCG Children’s Hospital, says there’s no point in prolonging the lives of these children, whose suffering seems intractable – those with malformations of the brain, lungs, heart or even with metabolic diseases.
A healthy 40-yr-old Dutch mother of two, who don’t yet know she wants to end her life, is suffering from chronic depression. In the Netherlands, it’s a perfectly legal reason to end life because proponents claim mental illness can be as serious as physical illness. Cases like this have risen sharply over the last years. Two hundred eighty two people with dementia and one hundred fifteen with psychological disorders requested to be euthanized in 2023.
Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Amsterdam, Damian Denys, is wondering if they’ve gone too far while noting that the waiting list for euthanizing mental illness patients was two years and that “that waiting list resulted in a lot of people changing heir mind.” Denys is of the opinion that, more than genuinely wanting to die, the majority of these patients:
“don’t know how to solve life. They’re out of answers, out of solutions. And the only thing they can imagine – which is paradoxical, as it’s the end of life – is that dying is the solution.”
No! They need Jesus, who is “the way, the truth, and the life!” (John 14:6)
