HF1930, the “End-of-Life Option Act,” establishes a process for a terminally ill adults with a prognosis of six months or less to obtain and self-administer “medical aid in dying medication.”
The House adopted the Health Finance and Policy Committee report related to HF1930 on February 12, 2024, by a vote of 70 to 61. 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, Minnesota 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.
