Democrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced she will sign an assisted suicide bill for terminally ill individuals after working with the state legislature to make changes to the legislation.
The bill was sent to Hochul’s desk in June, where it remained for several months before she reached a compromise with Democrat lawmakers. New York will now become the 13th state, plus Washington, DC, that allows physicians to assist terminally ill people to kill themselves — all in the name of “choice,” compassion, and easing end-of-life suffering. Democrat-led Illinois became the 12th state to do so earlier this month.
Hochul said in a statement on December 17:
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. 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.