How fitting that in the wee hours of Halloween, shrouded in spooky darkness, our devilish Democrats in Springfield would sneakily pass the controversial physician-assisted killing bill. Can’t let Satan’s minions out of your sight for even a few hours.
This dirty work was done by state senators. Democrat representatives did their dirty work months ago, again under cover of darkness. They gutted a food preparation bill and filled the vacuum with death. This sneaky “gut-and-replace” tactic is used by dishonest politicians to pass controversial bills without proceeding through normal procedural steps that might give we the people more time and opportunity to make our opposition known.
Now the bill goes to Governor Pritzker who has yet to find a demonic bill he won’t embrace.
The bill “Authorizes a qualified patient with a terminal disease to request that a physician prescribe aid-in-dying medication.” Thirty years ago, before Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted killing, Americans could be forgiven for their gullibility in believing the lies of leftists. But not today.
Doctors will soon be putting down not just terminally ill patients but elderly patients, disabled patients, chronically ill patients, and depressed patients. They will put down the old and infirm and the young and physically fit. Insurance companies will be incentivized to lean into killing as opposed to wasting all those buckets of ducats on life-sustaining palliative treatments. The elderly will be subtly pressured and not-subtly coerced into doing the selfless thing by offing themselves.
Just take a gander at the Netherlands to see where all this is leading:
Euthanasia was first permitted in adults and children with a capacity of 12 years and older, then in infants and now is legal for children of 1–12 years.
The silver-tongued, conscience-seared will deceive the suffering among us into believing their deaths will be peaceful and pain-free—a blissful experience the likes of which the living could only envy.
Here’s what they won’t be told:
While assisted suicide and euthanasia is often portrayed as a ‘Hollywood’ style peaceful and painless death, evidence from jurisdictions where the practice is legal reveals that this is not always the case. The prevalence of reported and suspected complications suggest there stands a risk of subjecting patients to a less than peaceful death and their loved ones to a traumatic bereavement. …
The experience of ‘assisted dying’ may not be the ‘safe and comfortable’ process promoted by campaigners, and patients must be properly informed of the realities of hastening death and the risk of distressing complications. In the case of assisted suicide, this includes difficulties ingesting the volume of lethal drugs, adverse reactions to such drugs once ingested, and chances of a prolonged dying which could take several hours. In the case of euthanasia, patients should be informed that cognitive levels can be difficult to monitor and that they will be administered a paralytic agent which will stop them breathing and may inhibit them from alerting anyone if they are in distress. There must also be clear guidelines as to what actions clinicians should take if an ‘assisted death’ goes wrong or fails. Are doctors prepared to be present if the death takes several hours? If the patient regurgitates the drugs, should the clinician clear the airway and put them in the prone position even though such action makes it less likely the patient will die?
Physician-assisted killing undermines the fundamental trust patients require in their relationship with doctors who once were expected to do no harm. How do leftists get around this thorny ethical problem? Same as they always do: redefine terms, in this case “harm.”
Illinois Democrats looked around Illinois where human babies can be killed anytime up until their birthdays for virtually no reason and thought, “These killing fields just aren’t bloody enough.”