Today, Right to Life of Michigan President Amber Roseboom warned about the threat of House Bills 5825-5828, which seek to legalize assisted suicide in Michigan.
“These bills are a misled attempt to save the state resources under the guise of compassionate care. The repeal of the state’s longstanding safeguard against assisted suicide would put thousands of Michiganders at imminent risk of declining care and abandonment. Turning our backs on vulnerable citizens and patients in their hour of greatest need runs counter to the core mission of healthcare, ultimately denying patients true dignity, care and compassion.
“Right to Life of Michigan stands with vulnerable citizens across the state in opposing any and every effort to legalize the dangerous practice of assisted suicide. A civilized society with the best healthcare system in the world must demand more for its patients, providing the highest standards of comfort and care, not an expedient lethal option,” stated Roseboom.
The American Medical Association and the Michigan State Medical Society continue to provide guidance, noting that “Physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer, would be difficult or impossible to control, and would pose serious societal risks.”
House Bills 5825-5828 mirror bills introduced in the state Senate last term, which were not passed.
In 1998, then-Governor John Engler signed a bill making assisted suicide a felony. In that same year, Michigan citizens voted overwhelmingly against an effort to overturn this law and legalize assisted suicide, instead upholding the state’s work to safeguard vulnerable populations.
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Right to Life of Michigan (RLM) is the state’s largest grassroots and policy organization dedicated to advocating life from conception to natural death. Since our founding in 1972, we have remained steadfast in our mission to stand for life by educating the public on current and long-standing life issues, supporting legal safeguards for women, parents, unborn children, the elderly, individuals with disabilities or chronic illness and those at the end of life, and endorsing and electing pro-life candidates for public office. RLM has 80 active, volunteer-led affiliates across the state representing hundreds of thousands of supporters. The organization achieved more than 200 electoral victories in 2024 alone. For more information, visit rtl.org.
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