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Physician-Assisted Suicide Hearing Scheduled for May 14th!
Lawmakers intent on legalizing physician-assisted suicide have scheduled HB 1328, the House version of SB 9, for a subject-matter hearing in the Illinois House Executive Committee, tomorrow, May 14, 2025.
Posted in Illinois Politics, Sanctity of Life
Tagged HB 1328, Hippocratic Oath, physician-assisted suicide, SB 9, subject matter hearing
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Legislative Update for the Week of May 12, 2025
With conflicting revenue forecasts and a potential $3 billion shortfall looming, the General Assembly’s final weeks will be pivotal in balancing priorities and shaping Illinois’ fiscal future before the July 1st start of the new fiscal year. In the meantime, we are watching a number of bills that should concern pro-family citizens. Don't give up the pressure!
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Tagged abortifacient, abortion pill, Curtis Tarver, DUI, Fentanyl, HB 2827, HB 3489, Linda Holmes, Lindsey LaPointe, Medicaid, physician-assisted suicide, Rachel Ventura, SB 1560, SB 42, SB 9, Terra Costa Howard
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Legislative Update for the Week of May 5, 2025
Illinois state lawmakers are returning to Springfield on Tuesday and are scheduled to work through Friday. Even with the May 31st General Assembly adjournment date in sight, we dare not relax. Our adversaries are working diligently to pass dubious and dangerous bills.
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Tagged Curtis Tarver, HB 1083, HB 2827, Linda Holmes, Lindsey LaPoint, Mental Health Screenings, physician-assisted suicide, Religious Freedom Protecting Act, Rights of Married Persons Act, Sara Feigenholtz, SB 1560, SB 42, SB 9, Terra Costa Howard, the Civil Unions Act
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Assisted Suicide Up For a Vote in Springfield?
Every human being is created by Almighty God in His image and has inherent dignity and value. Terminal illnesses and suffering does not diminish this fact.
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Tagged Center on Human Exceptionalism, Discovery Institute, Dr. Kevin Garner, Dr. Matthew Eppinette, Linda Holmes, physician-assisted suicide, SB 9, Wesley J. Smith
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State Lawmakers May Try to Legalize Physician-Assisted Suicide Next Week
It looks fairly certain that the Illinois General Assembly is going to try to pass a Physician-Assisted Suicide bill in Springfield during the few days of Lame Duck Session next week. Please take action immediately...
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Tagged Illinois General Assembly, lame duck session, physician-assisted suicide, SB 3499
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Legalizing Assisted Suicide is Reprehensible
There is a terrible proposal in Springfield being shopped around right now behind closed doors – a bill to legalize assisted suicide in Illinois. Just days before the General Assembly adjourns, certain members are trying to rush a measure through so the Governor can sign it into law. Even with their supermajority, far-left legislators know very well that if "We, the People" could actually see their bill, it would likely kill their chances to pass the bill. Hence, they are keeping the bill under wraps by secretly rounding up the votes for assisted suicide first and then unveiling the legislation for the rest of us to see right before an 11th-hour vote. This is Illinois.
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The Problems with Assisted Suicide
In an excerpt from a panel discussion, Ryan T. Anderson, PhD., author and the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in American Principles & Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation, discusses four arguments against physician-assisted suicide. A strong pro-life stance must encompass not only the value of life in the womb, but also the value of life at every point from birth to God-appointed death.
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No Suicide Discrimination!
When I was asked by my late daughter Marie’s best friend to join her on a family and friends fundraising walk for suicide prevention last Sunday, I hesitated.
I was in the process of reading yet another disturbing article about assisted suicide, this time a Journal of Clinical Psychiatry article titled “Working with Decisionally Capable Patients Who Are Determined to End Their Own Lives” and I found it outrageous that the suicide prevention groups I know exclude potential physician-assisted suicide victims.
As a nurse, I have personally and professionally cared for many suicidal people over decades including some who were …
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Tagged Derek Humphry, euthanasia, Final Exit, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, physician-assisted suicide, suicide prevention
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You Don’t Want to be a Burden, Do You?
An April 13, 2018 USA Today op-ed titled “Make an End-of-life plan or Lose your Money and Choices in your Dying Days” begins with the statement “End-of-life care can bankrupt your family and rob you of choices. End the denial about dying. Make a plan in case you end up seriously ill and frail.” Ms. Bryant is very upfront about using the economic argument about aging and the enormous toll it can take financially and personally on the family as well as medical costs.
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Tagged Advance Directive, Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, End-of-life care, Hattie Bryant, New York Times, physician-assisted suicide, Richard Lamm, USA Today
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Why Is a Young Generation Opting for Death Via Suicide?”
Life is so precious, and the right to life recognized as a “natural” or God-given right, so much so that it was codified in our Declaration of Independence.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Note that the “right to life” is given preeminence: without life no other right is necessary. And “unalienable” further emphasizes the untouchable nature of that right: mankind was gifted life by its Creator — the Lord …
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Tagged agnosticism, Anne Saker, Atheism, Death With Dignity, Frank Peretti, Jayne O'Donnell, Jon Eareckson Tada, Me Before You, nones, Pew Research, physician-assisted suicide, Planned Parenthood, religiously unaffiliated, suicide, USA Today
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Six Things You Need to Know about Physician-Assisted Suicide
Is the real healthcare crisis not enough physician assisted suicide laws? Or is it the staggering and increasing number of people losing their battles with mental illness and committing suicide?
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Tenderness Leads To The Gas Chamber
“In the absence of faith, we govern by tenderness. And tenderness leads to the gas chamber,” said Flannery O’Connor. Her point was that sentimentality cannot restrain the darker forces in human nature. Which brings us to the Catholic bishops of eastern Canada.
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Neutrality Kills
In 1994, Oregon became the first state to pass a physician-assisted suicide law. This came after the Oregon Medical Association changed its position from opposition to neutrality. 21 years later and after multiple failed attempts, the California state legislature approved the latest physician-assisted suicide law after the California Medical Association changed its opposition to neutrality.
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