"Choice" Is An Illusion: Bi-Partisan Resolution Opposing Assisted Suicide Introduced in Congress

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Bi-Partisan Resolution Opposing Assisted Suicide Introduced in Congress

By Rebecca Duberstein

Congressman Wenstrup

Yesterday on September 27, Congressman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) held a press conference announcing the introduction of a resolution (H.Con.Res.80) expressing the sense of Congress that assisted suicide “puts everyone, including those most vulnerable, at risk of deadly harm and undermines the integrity of the health care system.”

Nine Members of Congress joined Congressman Wenstrup as original cosponsors of the resolution: Rep. Lou Correa (D-CA), Rep. Andy Harris, M.D. (R-MD), Rep. Juan Vargas (D-CA), Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL), Rep. James Langevin (D-RI), Rep. Ralph Abraham, M.D. (R-LA), Rep. Daniel Lipinski (D-IL), Rep. Keith Rothfus (R-PA), and Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY).

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A press release can be viewed here.

Issues by State & Country

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CT	DC	DE	FL	GA	GU	HI
IA	ID	IL	IN	KS	KY	LA
MA	MD	ME	MI	MN	MO	MP
MS	MT	NC	ND	NE	NH	NJ
NM	NV	NY	OH	OK	OR	PA
PR	RI	SC	SD	TN	TX	UT
VA	VI	VT	WA	WI	WV	WY
AUSTRALIA				CANADA
NEW ZEALAND
SOUTH AFRICA

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Allowed to Inherit

In US jurisdictions where assisted suicide and euthanasia are legal, resulting deaths are certified natural as a matter of law.

One significance is that the decedent's heirs, who participated in obtaining the decedent's death, for example, by administering the lethal dose to the decedent, are allowed to inherit from the decedent as a matter of law.

This was not the case under prior law in which persons, who killed other persons, were prohibited from financially benefitting from the deaths they caused, for example, due to a slayer's statute or caselaw.

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In the ten US states and the District of Columbia, where assisted suicide and euthanasia are legal, the most obvious problem is a complete lack of required oversight at the deaths.

The laws in these jurisdictions allow just two individuals to be present, with one leaving alive and the other leaving dead.

In the above jurisdictions, deaths via assisted suicide or euthanasia, termed medical aid in dying, are treated as natural as a matter of law.

This treatment allows an individual's heirs to inherit from the individual despite objection by the individual himself or herself, or by other persons.

Why Choice is an Illusion?

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Bi-Partisan Resolution Opposing Assisted Suicide Introduced in Congress