Delaware Assisted Suicide bill passes in the House.
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The Delaware State Senate must defeat assisted suicide Bill HB 140.
On March 18, Delaware assisted suicide bill HB 140 passed in the State House by a vote of 21 to 17. HB 140 will now move to the Delaware State Senate.
Please contact every member of the Delaware State Senate and urge them to vote NO to assisted suicide Bill HB 140. (Link to the list of Delaware State Senators).
In 2024, a similar assisted suicide bill passed in the State House by a vote of 21 to 16 and then passed in the Senate by a vote of 11 to 10. Last September Delaware Governor John Carney votoed the assisted suicide bill, saving lives from assisted suicide in Delaware.
Governor Carney completed his term as Governor. The new Delaware Governor is Matt Meyer who has stated that he supports assisted suicide.
Therefore Delaware assisted suicide Bill HB 140 must be defeated in the Senate. Please contact every member of the Delaware State Senate and urge them to vote NO to assisted suicide Bill HB 140. (Link to the list of Delaware State Senators).
We require members of the Senate to vote NO to defeat Delaware Assisted Suicide Bill HB 140 in 2025.
Some good arguments opposing HB 140 include:
People with eating disorders are dying by assisted suicide.
An article by Jennifer Brown that was published in the Colorado Sun on March 14, 2022 reported that Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani, an internal medicine doctor who specializes in eating disorders published a paper on how she was prescribing assisted suicide for people with Anorexia Nervosa in Colorado. Gaudiani approved assisted suicide for Anorexia Nervosa by falsely defining the condition as terminal.
Nearly every state that has legalized assisted suicide, has expanded their law.
HB 140 claims to be a “tightly worded” bill. The assisted suicide lobby uses a “bait and switch” technique whereby they sell assisted suicide with a “tightly worded bill” and if the bill passes they pressure states to expand their laws or force them to expand their law with a court case. (Article Link).
Assisted suicide creates two tier medicine
Some suicidal people are offered suicide prevention while others are provided assisted suicide. Assisted suicide is inherently discriminatory.
We believe in caring for people not killing them.
Assisted suicide is an act of providing a poison cocktail to someone who is living with suicidal ideation, often related to their health concerns.
Assisted suicide constitutes killing. We believe in caring for people at their time of need.
Assisted suicide is not about autonomy but rather it medically abandons a person to death.
