As the spring legislative session winds down in Illinois, sponsors of assisted suicide legislation are trying to get passage by including the measure with a food prep bill. Democratic State Representative Robyn Gabel attached the stalled assisted suicide bill’s language to a food preparation safety bill as an amendment.
The law would allow for people diagnosed with a terminal illness and given six months to live to be prescribed a deadly drug cocktail. State Representative Bill Hauter, who is a practicing physician, takes issue with the fact this important legislation is tucked inside a food prep sanitation bill.
The Catholic Conference of Illinois, staunch opponents of the measure, said Gabel is quietly trying to push the bill through the legislature in a last ditch effort to get assisted suicide legalized in Illinois.
Story from Illinois Radio Network
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