In New York State there are two new proposals, Bill 2129A and Bill 5261B, pertaining to assisted suicide. As babies in the womb are in danger from abortion so the elderly and sick are in danger from legalized assisted suicide.
Margaret Dore, an attorney in Washington State as well as president of Choice is an Illusion puts into words the threat these proposals present.
Dore explains, “…in 2008, I got dragged to a meeting about our assisted suicide law and saw the perfect crime: your heir could help sign you up, and once the lethal dose was in the house, there was no oversight. Not even a witness is required. If you resisted or even struggled, who would know?” She added, “The New York bills have the same problem.”
Assisted suicide is a misfortune in the first place. When people choose to prematurely end their life with the help of others they are choosing death over life. They are turning away from the sacredness of life, of their life. However, these New York proposals highlight other misfortunes of assisted suicide: the loopholes that exist for others to take advantage of the sick and elderly as well as those who actually do.
“If enacted, the New York bills will allow assisted suicide (or euthanasia) without consent,” Dore said. “And in case I’m being too subtle, the drugs used are water and alcohol soluble, such that they can be injected into a restrained or sleeping person. After the person dies, the death certificate is REQUIRED to reflect a natural death. It’s the perfect crime.”
For those heirs who want to collect an inheritance or those who are sick of caring for the sick, they now have a way to wash their hands clean of what they deem to be a problem. They can do it under the name of what the culture of death labels as compassion. If these bills are passed, people can commit murder in New York and get away with it because of the law.
In abortions, the babies are not asked if they want to live or die. They do not get a choice. Likewise, it could become more commonplace with assisted suicide where the elderly and terminally ill are put in positions to no longer having a choice about their own life. When others want you to die or are okay with you dying that can affect your choice. Then when laws require less oversight and consent for assisted suicide that can take away your choice.
The elderly and terminally ill are vulnerable to assisted suicide: they may see it as a good option, others may encourage them, or some may even force them to go through with it. There’s no getting around the fact, assisted suicide opens the door to people murdering the vulnerable. The New York proposals to legalize assisted suicide, Bill 2129A and Bill 5261B, if anything demonstrate that.
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