Sign and share our petition opposing The Patient Access to End-of-Life Care Act (HB 8137) (petition link)
Our petition states:Dear Representative Jeffries and Representative Scalise,
I oppose The Patient Access to End-of-Life Care Act (HB 8137) that would force Americans to pay for assisted suicide (medically approved killing by poison) with their tax dollars.
I oppose assisted suicide and I vehemently oppose paying for medically approved killing.
Thank you in advance for upholding my conscience rights by not approving the use of tax dollars for killing.
Sign and share our petition opposing The Patient Access to End-of-Life Care Act (petition link)
The Patient Access to End-of-Life Care Act would end a ban on federal funding to help terminally ill people pay for medical aid in dying where it is currently authorized or will be authorized in the future.The Patient Access to End-of-Life Act is sponsored by Representatives Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) and Scott Peters (D-CA) and would essentially replace the Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997 which prohibited the use of appropriated funds for:
- causing or assisting in suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing;
- compelling any person or entity to provide or fund any item, benefit, program, or service for such purpose; or
- asserting or advocating a legal right to cause or assist such actions.
The act is titled: The Patient Access to End-of-Life Care Act because the assisted suicide lobby intends to promote the funding of medically approved killing in conjunction with other end-of-life care, such as palliative care.
Based on the current political configuration, it is unlikely that this bill will pass, but it indicates the direction of the assisted suicide lobby and it makes the issue of medically assisted killing, which has essentially been a state by state issue, into a federal issue.
Oppose the Patient Access to End-of-Life Care Act. Don't let your tax dollars be used to kill people.
