Call Your Senator to ask for a NO VOTE on Suicide Expansion for Non-Terminally Ill & Dementia Patients
In 2015, California legalized assisted suicide for adults with illnesses of 6 months or less to live.
Now, a Senator is pushing a bill (SB 1196) to allow all chronically ill Californians to receive assisted suicide, as well as people with dementia. Right now, millions of Californians don’t have health care and can’t find doctors or hospitals. The State needs to ensure people have good and accessible healthcare so that people with chronic illnesses don’t feel coerced into dying prematurely. No one should feel compelled to use assisted suicide due to a scarcity of housing, food, pain management, mental health treatment, home health, or psycho-social support.
“Suicide rates in California continue to skyrocket in vulnerable communities. At a time when CA is reeling from medical and mental healthcare scarcities, introducing a bill inviting a vast population to consider suicide is like adding gasoline to a wildfire,”
– KATHLEEN DOMINGO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CALIFORNIA CATHOLIC CONFERENCE