Kathy Hochul is making a horrifying decision for New Yorkers.
She’s going to sign an assisted suicide bill into law, because apparently life in the Empire State has absolutely no meaning.
Sure, she’s said there’ll be guardrails in place — but the Medical Aid in Dying law, known as MAID just like the Canadian version, will result in New Yorkers being killed by doctors.
We really should not be taking guidance on this issue from our failed neighbors to the north.
It’s called physician-assisted suicide, but in reality it tells doctors to betray the very Hippocratic Oath that is the foundation of western medicine.
Killing patients, even if they are terminally ill, even if they say they would rather die, is the definition of “doing harm.”
This leftist, life-hating law would start out allowing adults with only six months to live the option of shuffling off this mortal coil even faster.
Just as with lethal injection — the ultimate punishment for criminals who have been convicted of the most heinous crimes society can imagine — those who choose untimely death would be given a fatal mix of drugs to stop their heart.
Funny how the worst thing we can do to a person, and what Hochul would argue is the best thing we can do for a person, are literally the same thing.
Hochul says there’ll be a waiting period of five days before a suicide-seeker gets the golden hypodermic to end all their pain.
That’ll give them just enough time to put together a lavish suicide party so they can say goodbye to all their friends and family.
The patient will have to put out a TikTok — I mean, make an audio or video recording — declaring that they really are just done with it all.
While they wait to die, they’ll get endless dopamine hits from comments and pings and reposts on their death vids.
They’ll also get a mental health evaluation, but anyone who’s been paying attention knows that our mental health professionals are not exactly living up to high standards of excellence.
Those who stand to benefit financially from the death of the patient wouldn’t be allowed to bear witness to the MAID request — but of course, that doesn’t mean anything at all when coercion is at play.
Hochul claims this is compassionate. She says her mother died of a terminal illness, and she didn’t like not being able to end her mom’s suffering.
But a life without suffering is not a life.
Only through suffering do we learn and grow: We are not pampered pets, but human beings.
If we want to end suffering entirely, we should just stop anyone from being born—of course, Democrats are into that too.
They seem to have a fetish for death.
How many more ways can Democrats enable the downfall of civilization and the eradication of humanity?
The United States is already committing a genocide against unborn Americans, with nearly a million in-utero murders per year.
Democratic lawmakers encourage teens to chemically castrate themselves and destroy their reproductive function in service to the sex-change lie.
Celebrity-obsessed, career-driven culture tells women to put off motherhood and embrace professional life until it’s biologically way too late for them to start families.
And now we’re supposed to believe that allowing the government to kill Americans upon request is compassion?
In Canada, government-assisted suicide is a leading cause of death — the government has even put out coloring books to explain it to kids.
In the UK, a member of the House of Lords said pregnant women should get assisted suicide if they want it, putting a whole new spin on the concept of “eating for two.”
In nations that are cool with MAID, the door for assisted suicide has been opened to the mentally ill and even to children — so don’t think Hochul won’t stop with the terminally ill.
For shame.
Americans’ lives are worth living. All the way to the very end.
Libby Emmons is the editor-in-chief at the Post Millennial.
If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts or are experiencing a mental health crisis and live in New York City, you can call 1-888-NYC-WELL for free and confidential crisis counseling. If you live outside the five boroughs, you can dial the 24/7 National Suicide Prevention hotline at 988 or go to SuicidePreventionLifeline.org.
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