House Bill 75, if passed, would be the third expansion of Vermont's assisted suicide law.
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| Alex Schadenberg |
Executive Director,
Vermont House Bill 75 (H 75) will expand the state assisted suicide law by allowing (non physicians) naturopathic physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants to participate in assisted suicide.
Are naturopathic physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants demanding the right to be involved with killing people?
Or is it that there are too few physicians who are willing to kill?
H 75 has been referred to the Committee on Health Care.
On January 5, 2024 I reported that data from the Vermont Department of Health indicated that the number of assisted suicide deaths more than quadrupled in 2022/2023 from the previous two years.
The increase in Vermont assisted suicide deaths is partly due to the expansions of the Vermont assisted suicide law.
In 2022 Vermont passed assisted suicide bill S74 which expanded their assisted suicide law by allowing assisted suicide by telemedicine, (permitting lethal assisted suicide poison prescriptions to be written without meeting the person), eliminating the 48 hour waiting period before prescribing and defining assisted suicide as a "healthcare service."
On March 14, 2023 Vermont's Attorney General's Office reached an agreement with the assisted suicide lobby to remove the residency requirement for assisted suicide in Vermont. That means residents form other states can die by assisted suicide in Vermont. A media report indicated that a Connecticut woman died by assisted suicide in Vermont.
Now Vermont wants to permit expand the law by permitting other medical professionals to also be legally capable of killing their patients.
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