Posted on 11/04/2025 11:13:45 AM PST by Morgana
Olivia Olander reported for the Chicago Tribune on November 3 that Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has not yet decided if he will sign or veto the recently passed assisted suicide bill. Olander reported:
Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday said he was still deciding whether he’d sign legislation that would permit doctors to help terminally ill people end their lives, after the bill narrowly passed the General Assembly last week.
“It was something that I didn’t expect and didn’t know it was going to be voted on, so we’re examining it even now,” Pritzker said.
We need everyone to call Illinois Governor JB Pritzker at 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122 and tell him to veto assisted suicide bill SB 1950. Some talking points include:
* Legalizing assisted suicide gives doctors the right in law to be involved with causing the death of their patients at the most vulnerable time of one’s life.
* Assisted suicide is not about freedom or choice but is a form of cultural and medical abandonment, people need care not death.
* A caring culture supports good end of life care and opposes assisting suicides.
* Suicide is always a tragedy. Legalizing assisted suicide enables other people to be directly involved with the suicide act.
If you have a personal story, please share it. It is important to remind the Governor that the disability community opposes assisted suicide because legalizing assisted suicide provides death rather than living with dignity.
Olander further reported that:
Speaking to reporters at an unrelated event at the Philip J. Rock Center and School in Glen Ellyn for deaf-blind children, Pritzker signaled an openness to the advocates’ arguments but was noncommittal about signing the legislation into law.
Assisted suicide Bill SB9 passed on April 9, 2025 by a vote of 8 to 3 in the Senate Executive Committee. SB9 stalled but was renewed when the sponsor gutted the Sanitary Food Preparation Act (SB 1950) and replaced the language with the assisted suicide bill. It is ironic that a bill that enables physicians to prescribe lethal poison cocktails to kill patients was attached to a food preparation safety bill.
Once assisted suicide is legal, the assisted suicide lobby will work to expand the law. The original assisted suicide bill is designed to pass in the legislature. Once passed incremental extensions will follow.
Tell Gov. Pritzker, “You go first.”
This is in the hands of the pollsters and focus groups
Right....he doesn’t give a rat’s ass what the people of Illinois think.
Would support it ONLY if Prickster was the first dimwit to do it...
Trying to get Pritzker to veto an assisted suicide bill is like getting him to skip a meal.
Assisted suicide is a common practice already in hospitals. Those who are in excruciating pain and approaching the inevitable end are often helped along with an increased dosage of opiates.
Are you kidding me?
Pritzker is the kind of guy who would happily help people ‘commit suicide’ (even if they didn’t want to).
This is the hard, unvarnished truth, and always has been at most hospitals. I am aware this method could be overly used, but I’m not going to sit in overall judgement of someone else’s degree of turmoil. Conditions would need to be laid out and clear to all. At some point, even palliative care, properly administered, may not be enough to stop the suffering.
Signing the “assisted life termination” bill into law is entirely within the realm in which JB Pritzker resides. It fits exactly within his frame of “morality”, which is more like the socialist programs of perhaps Canada, or maybe the Netherlands.
Just the notion of “dignified”. Hurry up and die so there won’t be millions wasted on life extension.
Anti-life has such an ugly face when it is seen in broad daylight.
How much, I wonder, do the doctors get paid by the Medical Insurance Companies for each ‘termination’ ?
Maybe the governor should spend more time reading the Bills to be voted on and less time eating so much.
During COVID, it was $34,000 every time a COVID patient died while on a respirator.
So every time a COVID patient showed up having difficulty breathing, on a respirator they went (which was the WORST thing to do, and Doctors & Hospitals KNEW this) until they died and the hospital collected $34k.
So I'd say, and just a guess here, the insurance companies are going to pay a minimum of $34k per assisted suicide because they'll save hundreds of thousands of dollars down the road per patient.
Occams Razor says I'm 98% right.
Yes, our state is now a tourist destination for all things perverse.
Assisted suicide feels wrong at first blush. I know of situations where this has happened and it likely was the sympathetic thing to do. It was also very dignified.
Arguments on nearly every side of this issue has merit.
Illinois already has assisted homicide!
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