Assisted Suicide Bill Pops Up In Last Week of Session

The latest out of Springfield: The sponsor of the assisted suicide bill in the Illinois House, Representative Robyn Gabel (D-Chicago), has attached her proposal to SB 1950 in Amendment 2. This bill has already passed the Illinois Senate and is now before the Illinois House. This will allow members of the House to pass the amended bill, and then members of the Senate need only to concur. It is a devious way to ram the bill through the General Assembly before the session ends on May 31st.

This legislation would allow people who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and whose physicians believe that they have six months or less to live to obtain lethal drugs by prescription and self-administer those drugs.