Assembly Speaker pours cold water on assisted suicide bill
MADISON (WKOW) — A Dane County state lawmaker wants to give terminally ill people the right to end their lives with dignity, but the top Republican in the State Assembly said he has “serious questions” about it.
For the second the second straight legislative session, Rep. Sondy Pope (D-Mount Horeb) has introduced a bill that would allow anyone with a sound mind who is suffering from a terminal illness to medically end their life at a time of their choosing.
The bill would require a doctor to give approval before a life-ending drug could be administered.
But Speaker Robin Vos (Rochester) said it’s not something he can support.
“I feel like if we passed her version of the bill, or any bill like that, it really takes away hope and says that the only way out for a lot of folks is to end their lives. And I just can’t accept that,” said Speaker Vos.
On Tuesday, the Assembly passed a bipartisan “Right To Try” bill – which allows terminally ill patients to try experimental drugs in an attempt to save their lives.
Speaker Vos said he wants to focus on legislation like that, instead of encouraging people to give up hope.
Without his support, the bill stands little chance to pass the Assembly.
In a press release, Rep. Pope said she believes it is inhumane to force a person with a terminal illness to suffer needlessly.
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What people fail-to realize, is that we are already being experimented on with inauthentic, and fraudulently labeled “medications” such as AHHD stimulants and “oxycodones”. They both contain synthetic ARSENIC, TRIOXIDE, CADMIUM….also, the meds are reconfigured in a frankensteinish way. I am loaded with HEAVY METALS, and these medications aren’t even real. So I will quickly die from the PAINFUL effects of these known CANCER causing substances.
Hey….here’s a novel concept…It’s called letting competent adults choose their own destiny without government interference. Why don’t the folks in Madison, who presume to dictate the terms of life and death to the citizens of the state of Wisconsin, make both bills law and the human beings, to whom these potential laws apply, can then choose their own path, whether to continue to fight or accept and embrace the inevitable for all. It’s not up to the state to decide what’s even on the table to begin with. To do so is usurpation and the first step to regaining what was unjustly taken is to demand it restored.
I agree. But I would also include people of sound mind that arent terminal. There are many people with incurable illnesses that are in such misery they wish to die. Its their right to live or die as they please also.