This article from the New York Post's Editorial Board urges Governor Kathy Hochul to protect vulnerable New Yorkers by ensuring the proposed assisted suicide bill does not become law. It highlights the importance of preserving compassionate, life-affirming care for those facing serious illness or disability. Emphasizing ethical responsibility, it encourages leaders to prioritize support systems over legislation that could put lives at risk. “Legalizing assisted suicide would send the dangerous message that some lives are not worth living — a message that could not be more contrary to New York’s values of inclusion and protection for all.”

Writer and philosopher, Audrey Pollnow, writes, "When euthanasia is permitted, all sorts of institutions—nursing homes, hospitals, sometimes even families—will pressure patients in subtle and explicit ways to end their lives. Expensive patients. Inconvenient patients. Vulnerable patients. The availability of euthanasia lets institutions wash their hands of their duties to the impoverished and uncared for."

Dr. Mark Komrad, a psychiatrist, says in this article, "[Psychiatrists] are equipped to process and ameliorate feelings like 'life is not worth living any more,' or anxiety about impending death, debilitation, or disability. We have these and other skills to help such emotions—independent of a patient's diagnosis. Indeed, we can even help with these kinds of thoughts and feelings for those who have no psychiatric diagnosis. This is what we do; we do not provide death, but we can help individuals prepare for it."

Wesley Smith, Chair and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism, says "Ill and disabled Canadians with non-life-threatening but serious conditions have no assurance of prompt medical care, and some people wait in agony for many months — or, as in this case, years — to receive proper clinical services... It may also be far less difficult to secure a death doctor than a treating physician, since the killing process is much faster. As a result, there have already been cases in which euthanasia was chosen by patients precisely because proper care was so long in coming. What a travesty."

PRAF is a leading national, non-partisan single-issue organization that protects the rights of patients, people with disabilities, older adults, and other historically underrepresented groups from deadly harm and discrimination inherent in assisted suicide laws.

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