{"id":331902,"date":"2025-06-02T16:10:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=331902"},"modified":"2025-06-02T16:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:16:18","slug":"illinois-assisted-suicide-food-sanitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/illinois-assisted-suicide-food-sanitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Senate fails to act on assisted suicide legalization hidden in food preparation bill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPDATE, 6\/2\/25:<\/strong> The Illinois Senate failed to take up SB 1950 for a vote before legislators adjourned until the state’s fall veto session. Though the bill is likely to return in a future session, the attempts by Democrat politicians to disguise the bill inside a completely unrelated bill in order to fast track its passage by the Senate drew significant outrage from various camps. Even the Daily Mail reported<\/a> on the move, calling it a “sneaky attempt to quietly pass assisted suicide legislation” and an “absurd tactic.”<\/p>\n

Disability advocacy group Access Living stated in a May 27 advocacy alert<\/a>:<\/p>\n

SB 1950 HFA 2 claims to be \u201cmedical aid in dying\u201d (MAID), and proponents claim the bill is about offering a \u201cchoice\u201d to die. But as many people with disabilities know, you can\u2019t choose what you don\u2019t have access to. If you can\u2019t get hospice, pain relief, mental health care, or support to live at home \u2014 PAS [physician-assisted suicide] is not a choice. It\u2019s a shortcut. A system that denies care, ignores suffering, and then offers a prescription to die is broken. You can\u2019t call it a choice if people don\u2019t have another way to manage pain or live with dignity.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Governor JB Pritzker did not issue comment on his position regarding the legislation.<\/p>\n

UPDATE, 5\/30\/25<\/strong>: The Illinois House has voted to pass SB 1950, a sanitary food preparation bill that includes an amendment that would legalize assisted suicide. The bill will now return to the Senate with just two days left in the legislative session. According to WAND<\/a>, it is unclear if it will clear the Senate with the new assisted suicide amendment.<\/p>\n

UPDATE, 5\/29\/25<\/strong>: SB 1950<\/a>, a sanitary food preparation bill that includes an amendment aimed at legalizing assisted suicide, has been voted out of an Illinois House committee and will now go to the House for a vote. If it passes, it will be sent to the Illinois Senate.<\/p>\n

Amendment 2<\/a> states, “Medical aid in dying is part of general medical care and complements other end-of-life options, such as comfort care, pain control, palliative care, and hospice care…”<\/p>\n

5\/25\/25<\/strong>: Legislators in Illinois are working to quietly legalize<\/a> assisted suicide by attaching pro-assisted death language to a food preparation sanitation bill as an amendment. The move comes after a proposed assisted suicide bill appears to have stalled in the House and Senate as the 2025 legislative session comes to a close.<\/p>\n

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