Executive Director,
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
The 2023 Colorado assisted suicide report indicates that assisted suicide poison prescriptions and deaths have continued to rise every year since legalization.
Even though the number of assisted suicide deaths is continually increasing Colorado Governor Gary Polis signed Senate Bill 24-068 on June 5 to expand their State assisted suicide law. Nearly every state that has legalized assisted suicide has expanded their law.
The Colorado report indicated that in 2023, 294 of the lethal poison prescriptions were dispensed which was up by more than 18% from 249 in 2022, 164 in 2021 and 149 in 2020.
The data seems confusing since Colorado collects information on the number of lethal poison prescriptions that are written and it collects information on the number of lethal poison prescriptions dispensed but it doesn't collect information on how many people actually died by assisted suicide.
We expect that the 2024 Colorado assisted suicide report will show more increases in deaths now that Colorado expanded their assisted suicide law in 2024.
The assisted suicide lobby knows that it is harder to legalize assisted suicide than to expand the law once it is legal. Nearly every state that has legalized assisted suicide has later expanded their law.
We expect that the 2024 Colorado assisted suicide report will show more increases in deaths now that Colorado expanded their assisted suicide law in 2024.
The assisted suicide lobby knows that it is harder to legalize assisted suicide than to expand the law once it is legal. Nearly every state that has legalized assisted suicide has later expanded their law.
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