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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.