I am begging you to get involved and stop another bill that would legalize assisted suicide in Illinois.

Please call and email your Illinois state lawmakers today and ask them to vote NO! on SB 1950. This bill has passed the full House and is under consideration by the Illinois Senate.

Just when we thought the evil push for assisted suicide in Illinois was over for 2025, it has come back.

The legislature literally amended a bill (SB 1950), which is supposed to be about sanitary food preparation, to add assisted-suicide language (House Amendment 002). It is hard to imagine anything more cynical. (It reminds me of the super-weird classic movie Soylent Green.)

Death is a sacred thing. The day each of us will die has been appointed by God, and no person has the right to take his own life. No legislature has the right to decree that a person may take his own life – no matter how hard that life has become, no matter how vulnerable or messy that life seems to be.

Legalizing assisted suicide is fundamentally unjust. It also endangers marginalized communities, including the elderly and the disabled. These individuals often encounter biases and obstacles within the healthcare system, making them susceptible to coercion and abuse.

But the potential for abuse will not stop there. Disability-rights advocates have voiced strong opposition to these bills because they can be weaponized against all manner of vulnerable patients: a young woman with an eating disorder … a mom with breast cancer … a homeless person with a mental illness.

Once Illinois legalizes the unthinkable – that which has been done only under tyrannical governments, like Nazi Germany – there will be no line that cannot be crossed.

We must stop SB 1950! Please call and email your state legislators today and ask them to vote NO! on SB 1950. 

Religious communities across Illinois are united in their opposition to SB 1950. There are so many other better options, such as increasing access to innovative treatments (“Right to Try” 2.0), enhancing palliative care, and investing in increased healthcare access.

Your voice is crucial in this pivotal moment.

Please call and email your Illinois lawmakers this weekend.