Tue Apr 25, 2023 – 10:53 am EDTTue Apr 25, 2023 – 11:49 am EDT
HARTFORD, Connecticut (Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) — I have great news: the Connecticut assisted suicide bill has died again.
This year represents 11 straight years for Connecticut to debate and defeat an assisted suicide bill. (Article from 2022: “Connecticut assisted suicide bill defeated again”).
READ: Abp. Paglia defends assisted suicide as ‘greatest common good possible’ for dying people
A news article by Hugh McQuaid for the CTNewsJunkie on April 19 reported:
A legislative panel on Wednesday tabled a proposal to allow terminally ill adults in Connecticut to end their own lives with medication, effectively ending the bill’s progress in the Judiciary Committee for the third consecutive year.
Sen. Gary Winfield, a New Haven Democrat who co-chairs the committee, announced that the proposal did not have enough support to pass as he raised it for a discussion during a midday meeting after hours of negotiations.
The assisted suicide bill sponsors, in 2023, intentionally added tighter guidelines in order to get it passed. The opponents of the bill explained that the intention was to get the bill passed, and then similar to other states, to expand the
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