Governor J.B. Pritzker will not get the chance to sign legislation allowing doctors to prescribe death-inducing drugs this summer, even after supporters switched the language to a different bill.
Lawmakers spent well over an hour on the House floor last weekend discussing Senate Bill 1950, which took language from Senate Bill 9.
State Rep. Robyn Gabel said the amended aid-in-dying measure contained protections.
State Rep. Bill Hauter, a practicing physician, said he objected to assisted suicide legislation being called a sanitary food preparation bill.
Hauter said assisting patients in killing themselves would violate an ancient oath doctors take to “first do no harm.”
The bill passed in the House but was not called for a vote in the Senate before the legislature adjourned for the summer.
Story from Illinois Radio Network
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