Gov. Hochul, make sure New Yorks assisted suicide bill NEVER becomes law

New York’s progressive legislators have reportedly gotten behind what may be their most morally disgraceful bill yet: an assisted-suicide legalization push.Worse, per Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx), the bill has the votes to pass, which may happen as early as next week. This must.Not.

Happen. Assisted suicide is sold to the public as a form of compassion — yet another inversion of reality. In practice, it is anything but. The trouble is, the promised reservation of assisted suicide to the chronically ill and elderly seems somehow always to get expanded. Until it encompasses young, physically healthy people like Zoraya ter Beek, whom the Dutch state permitted to take her own life because she was depressed. Or, as is the case with Canada, the poor, the disabled and the marginalized.Like Alan Nichols, a down-on-his-luck man with a history of mental illness who listed “hearing loss” as the only health reason for his own euthanasia — which, shockingly, was then granted.  Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email address.By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Never miss a story.The Trudeau government even tried to sell veteran and paralympian Christine Gauthier on suicide, simply because she fought to have the Veterans’ Affairs department install a wheelchair ramp at her house. The idea that fiscal calculations, i.e.

that it’s cheaper simply to kill people like Nichols and Gauthier than to help them, didn’t play some role here is dubious, at best. In the US, Oregon — the pioneer on OKing this insanity — is already mulling the idea of expanding the class of people authorized to prescribe suicide drugs to include nurse practitioners and vastly shortening the wait time from 15 to two days. Vermont might include literal quacks on the list of people allowed to help people kill themselves. It’s the slipper...