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An Irresponsible Bill

28 Jan An Irresponsible Bill

Posted at 14:41h in Public by

Friends, 

Your elected officials need to hear from you.

HB 1141 makes already problematic Assisted-Suicide policies worse.

Even under the current “Death With Dignity Act,” there are serious concerns, including:

  1. A lack of proper screening for depression – in 2018, only 10 out of 267 applications for Assisted-Suicide were referred to counseling
  2. Physicians who prescribe the lethal doses are not being legally mandated to have proper training to diagnose depression
  3. A severe lack of effective oversight to prevent abuse of this system

The new bill makes this much worse in many ways, including:

  1. Replacing the 15-day wait time with a 3-day wait time
  2. Allowing those 3 days – just 72 hours – to be waived
  3. Lowering qualifications for those prescribing lethal drugs – even at the current level, they’re often not properly diagnosing depression
  4. Removing the “controlled” classification on these drugs, allowing lethal drugs to be shipped in the normal mail system.

Any bad day can be someone’s last. People have no chance to reconsider.

Learn more in the attached PDF or at this link. Page 7 onward deals specifically with HB 1141. 

Our legislators need to hear from you! They need to know that, even if they don’t agree with our opposition to Assisted-Suicide, HB 1141 is a bad, irresponsible bill! 

Bill status: As of January 26, HB 1141 is in the House Rules Committee. They determine whether to pass it to the floor for a vote. All Legislators need to hear the truth about HB 1141 so they can tell their Rules Committee peers to not send it to the floor.

You can find your legislators by district here and the full lists here. 

Please tell your legislators to “Vote ‘No,’” by calling directly, by emailing them, or by calling the legislative hotline at 1-800-562-6000 – the hotline staff are non-partisan and very helpful. A new version of a sample email is attached for you to use if you wish.

If you want to help more, please contact Rules Committee members, who you can find here or in the sample email. Tell them, “Don’t let this irresponsible bill go to the floor.”