We need your help to protect Delaware’s vulnerable citizens! House Bill 140, that legalizes physician-assisted suicide, was voted out of committee and is on the “ready list” to go before the full Delaware House of Representatives. For years, the Catholic community has joined advocates for the disabled and others to oppose this bill that would put the lives of our most vulnerable citizens at risk. It’s time to stand up and make our voices heard.
Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer says he supports physician-assisted suicide legislation vetoed last year by Gov. John Carney.
| In Maryland, Senator Will Smith, chair of the Judicial Proceedings Committee, has introduced a bill to legalize physician assisted suicide (PAS). Senate Bill 926, the “End of Life Option Act,” currently is scheduled for a hearing by Smith’s committee on March 5. We will keep you updated and send out action alerts. In the meantime, please check out our online resource kit about PAS. |
We urge all people of good will to demand that our lawmakers reject suicide as an end-of-life option and to choose the better, safer path that involves radical solidarity with those facing the end of their earthly journey. Let us choose the path that models true compassion and dignity to those facing end of life decisions and protects the most vulnerable from the deadly proposition of physician assisted suicide.” ~Most Reverend William E. Lori, Archbishop of Baltimore, Wilton Cardinal Gregory, Archbishop of Washington and Most Reverend William Koenig, Bishop of Wilmington. A Better Way Forward, January 2024
Too often our older folks feel like they are a burden to their families given their need for increasing care in some situations,” Msgr. Steve Hurley recently said. “How many of us have heard an elderly family member or parishioner say ‘I don’t want to be a burden.’ A real fear is that PAS will give these vulnerable adults an avenue to an untimely and needless death. I was just reading that the age group with the most proportional suicides is those 85 and over.
