STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday announced she would sign into law the [so-called] Medical Aid in Dying Act after coming to an agreement with the state Legislature … bringing an end to a decade-long battle by advocates to get the measure passed.
Once the agreed-upon bill is passed and signed in January, the law will go into effect six months later.
The governor made the announcement 191 days after the Senate approved the original measure on June 9 by a margin of 35-27. That vote came over a month and a half after the state Assembly passed the measure on April 23 by a margin of 81-67.
“New York has long been a beacon of freedom, and now it is time we extend that freedom to terminally ill New Yorkers who want the right to die comfortably and on their own terms,” said Hochul in a statement.
She’s partly right; New York legalized the “freedom” to kill babies in 1970, three years before Roe v. Wade extended the practice nationwide. – HEADLINE HEALTH
“My mother died of ALS, and I am all too familiar with the pain of seeing someone you love suffer and being powerless to stop it. Although this was an incredibly difficult decision, I ultimately determined that with the additional guardrails agreed upon with the legislature, this bill would allow New Yorkers to suffer less — to shorten not their lives, but their deaths.”
[On this earth, death cannot be shortened, it lasts forever; only life is short. – HEADLINE HEALTH]
New York will become the 14th jurisdiction in the United States to permit medical aid in dying. Others include Oregon, Washington, Montana, Vermont, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, New Jersey, Delaware, Maine and New Mexico.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker [another notorioius abortion backer] signed the End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act earlier this month.
About the bill
The Medical Aid in Dying Act — which was carried by Manhattan Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal in the Senate and Westchester Assemblymember Amy Paulin in the Assembly, and counts Staten Island state Sen. Jessica Scarcella-Spanton as its prime co-sponsor — allows mentally competent, terminally ill patients over the age of 18 the choice of self-administering prescribed life-ending medication.
[Mentally competent persons do not kill themselves – hard stop. – HEADLINE HEALTH]
Only those with medically confirmed terminal illnesses and conditions who have fewer than six months to live will be able to request medical aid in dying.
[Since life itself is a terminal condition, and since no one can know how long they may live or when they will die, these terms and conditions are totally meaningless. – HEADLINE HEALTH]
