{"id":15028,"date":"2025-12-26T09:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=15028"},"modified":"2025-12-26T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:41:08","slug":"new-york-legalizes-doctors-prescribing-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/new-york-legalizes-doctors-prescribing-death\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Legalizes Doctors Prescribing Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The march towards Canada’s MAiD<\/a>, Medical Assistance in Dying, continues in the states. In Canada they’re harvesting organs and even bridging the idea of murdering the mentally ill and homeless. Technically, if you can’t afford to live, you can commit suicide with MAiD, which now accounts for 5.1% of deaths in Canada. And white coats are already falsely declaring people brain dead in order to harvest their organs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/12\/26\/new-york-legalizes-doctors-prescribing-death\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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By: Abigail Nichols<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New York Gov. Hochul announced last week that she will sign a bill legalizing medically assisted suicide for adults with a terminal illness.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced in an op-ed<\/a> last week that she will sign a bill legalizing medical assisted suicide for adults with a terminal illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hochul says she is passing the Medical Aid in Dying Act due to the \u201cgenuine and deeply held belief that government must respect the rights and will of the people it serves.\u201d To qualify, an adult must be \u201cmentally competent\u201d and have a \u201cprognosis of six months or less to live,\u201d the bill<\/a> states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill also makes it clear that anyone who makes the request for medical assisted suicide must not be considered \u201csuicidal\u201d and taking medication to intentionally end one\u2019s life should not be considered a \u201csuicide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This move lets New York join the club of 12 states<\/a> and the District of Columbia that preach suicide as a form of \u201cmedical aid in dying.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the act will allow \u201cindividual doctors and religiously affiliated health facilities\u201d to decline offering suicide as a form of treatment to those who are suicidal, doctors must \u201cpromptly<\/a>\u201d transfer requesting clients to a health care provider who is \u201cwilling to permit the prescribing, dispensing, ordering or self-administering\u201d of suicide medication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI heard stories of a parent or spouse pleading for an end to the suffering,\u201d Hochul, whose own mom died from ALS, writes. \u201cI am all too familiar with the pain of seeing someone you love suffer and feeling powerless to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have never had any form of terminal illness, but I watched my mom fight cancer for five years and die. It\u2019s no easy thing to watch and I can conclude it\u2019s even harder to fight. Yet, that doesn\u2019t mean we should let our government allow the terminally ill to kill themselves as a form of so-called \u201chealthcare.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prognoses Can Be Wrong<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The entire framing of the bill adopts suicide into society as a form of medical treatment, putting suicide as a remedy option and medical professionals as death prescribers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prognosis of a life span that acts as a qualifier for medical suicide is a theory or an educated \u201cprediction<\/a>\u201d that is never 100 percent guaranteed correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take J.J. Hanson<\/a>, an anti-physician assisted suicide activist who died from terminal brain cancer. At the time of his prognosis, he was given four months to live. Yet, \u201cthe punctual activist was 3 years, 3 months, and 18 days late for an appointment\u201d that allowed him to meet his newborn who doctors said he\u2019d never get to meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contradicting Duties<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hochul also writes<\/a> that \u201ca psychologist or psychiatrist\u201d must assess the patient to ensure they are \u201ccapable of making the decision and not under duress.\u201d Licensed therapists and medical professions are required by law<\/a> to report<\/a> when a client expresses intentions of suicide due to suicide being a clear sign of distress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medical professionals have a duty to utilize the strengths-based approach<\/a> that encourages resilience and confidence in ability, especially when it comes to client mental health and suicidal ideation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These professions have an ethical responsibility to ensure the health and well-being of those they serve. This bill completely contradicts those duties and responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York bill also requires patients to sign their request to die and makes it clear that medical professions \u201cshall not be subject to\u201d liability for prescribing or refusing to prescribe suicide as medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

California\u2019s Climbing Numbers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When California first started prescribing death in 2016, 111 individuals died by medically assisted suicide. By 2024, that number increased<\/a> 800 percent, to 1,032 people, with the highest demographics<\/a> being white females in their 80s with malignant neoplasms. And the numbers will continue to climb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adopting suicide as a medical intervention for the terminal ill will inevitably lead to suicide being prescribed for those diagnosed with depression. More than 49,000 people died by suicide in 2023, according<\/a> to the CDC. These people who want to end their life need help and support, not bills that encourage them to kill themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of the day, a person can choose to take their own life. Yet, when the government steps in to allow healthcare workers to use suicide as a dignified medical form of care instead of helping them save lives and improve their overall health, it is a grave disservice to its citizens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having a terminal illness is already a life-shattering experience that is physically, emotionally, mentally, and financially arduous. The experience becomes even worse when medical professionals are not ethical, compassionate, and committed to advocate for solutions. Clients need a medical team they can trust who is committed to improving their overall physical and mental health. Opening the door to medical assisted suicide, one bill at a time, will only poison the profession, society, and take more lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The march towards Canada’s MAiD, Medical Assistance in Dying, continues in the states. In Canada they’re harvesting organs and even bridging the idea of murdering the mentally ill and homeless. Technically, if you can’t afford to live, you can commit suicide with MAiD, which now accounts for 5.1% of deaths in Canada. And white coats […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15031,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15028\/revisions\/15031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}