By Catholics for Catholics
“Pope Leo XIV’s message of hope, compassion, unity, and peace resonates with Illinoisans of all faiths and traditions,” Illinois Governor JB Pritzker wrote just a few weeks ago after meeting with the Chicago-born pope at the Vatican. Now Pritzker has selected December 12, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, to sign an assisted suicide bill into law.
Against the objections of disability rights groups and religious leaders, Governor Pritzker is signing SB 1950, or the “End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act,” into law. The bill legalizes assisted suicide and allows patients to self-administer life-ending medication with the review of two physicians and two witnesses. In the Senate, which voted 30-27 to pass the bill, every “yes” vote came from a Democrat and eight Democrats joined the remaining 19 Republicans to vote against the measure.
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