HB140, the “Ron Silverio/Heather Block End of Life Options Act,” establishes a process for a terminally ill adults with a prognosis of six months or less to obtain and self-administer “medication to end their life in a humane and dignified manner.”
The Delaware House of Representatives passed HB140 on March 18, 2025 by a vote of 21 to 17. We have assigned pluses to the nays because physician-assisted suicide is murder. As with abortion, it blatantly violates the Hippocratic Oath, which has guided physicians for centuries, in addition to the Sixth Commandment. Given that the care of human life — not its destruction — is the greatest responsibility of government, Delaware ought to forbid physician-assisted suicide, upholding the sanctity of life for every person. Life is a gift from God, and its final disposition belongs to Him. It is also the first and foremost “unalienable” right asserted in the Declaration of Independence and protected by the Fifth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
