Last week, a federal court issued an order to the state of Illinois that will temporarily shield some medical professionals from the heinous assisted suicide law that is set to take effect in early September.
Governor Pritzker signed Senate Bill 1950 into law in December 2025. It allows terminally ill patients the option to seek medication to end their lives, but it does not require physicians, health care providers or pharmacists to provide end-of-life medication. Undoubtedly there will be others ‘out there’ who will be happy to provide it and make lots of money doing so.
Earlier in August, a group of Catholic doctors, a Lutheran skilled nursing facility and Springfield Bishop, Thomas J. Paprocki, sued the state arguing that SB1950 is ‘in violation of the Hippocratic Oath, centuries of legal and medical tradition, and their deeply held religious convictions’.
The order shielding the plaintiffs will stay in place until the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois rules on the motion for a preliminary injunction.