Bad News: Illinois Senate passes assisted suicide bill SB 1950.
Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
I have bad news: Illinois Senate Bill (SB) 1950 passed in the Illinois Senate by a vote of 30 to 27 in the final session of the Senate. On May 29, 2025 SB 1950 passed in the Illinois House by a vote of 63 to 42.
We need everyone to call Illinois Governor JB Pritzker at 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122 and tell him to veto assisted suicide bill SB 1950.
When searching on the internet SB 1950 causes confusion because it comes up as the Sanitary Food Preparation Act.
This year, assisted suicide Bill SB9 passed on April 9, 2025 by a vote of 8 to 3 in the Senate Executive Committee. Bill SB9 stalled but was renewed when it’s sponsor gutted the Sanitary Food Preparation Act (SB 1950) and inserted the language of the assisted suicide bill. It is ironic that a bill that enables physicians to prescribe lethal poison cocktails to kill patients was attached to a food preparation safety bill.
We need everyone to call Illinois Governor JB Pritzker at 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122 and tell him to veto assisted suicide bill SB 1950. Some talking points:
- Legalizing assisted suicide gives doctors the right in law to be involved with causing the death of their patients at the most vulnerable time of one’s life.
- Assisted suicide is not about freedom or choice but is a form of cultural and medical abandonment, people need care not death.
- A caring culture supports good end of life care and opposes assisting suicides.
If you have a personal story, please share it. It is important to remind the Governor that the disability community opposes assisted suicide because legalizing assisted suicide provides death rather than living with dignity.
Once assisted suicide is legal, the assisted suicide lobby will lobby or launch court cases to expand the law. The original assisted suicide bill is designed to pass in the legislature, once passed incremental extensions will follow.
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