Illinois state Rep. Robyn Gabel, D-Evanston, during a House committee hearing May 28, 2025 | BlueRoomStream
By Kevin Bessler | The Center Square
As the spring legislative session winds down in Illinois, sponsors of assisted suicide legislation are trying get passage by including the measure with a food prep bill.
State Rep. Robyn Gabel, D-Evanston, attached the stalled assisted suicide bill’s language to a food preparation safety bill as an amendment.
“Medical aid in dying is a trusted and time-tested medical practice that is part of the full spectrum of end of life care options,” Gabel said during Wednesday’s House Executive Committee hearing.
Known as the “End of Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act,” the House amendment to Senate Bill 1950 would allow a person considered terminally ill to receive and self-administer lethal drugs after a physician determined they had less than six months to live.
State Rep. Bill Hauter, R-Morton, who is a practicing physician, takes issue with the fact that this important legislation is tucked inside a food prep sanitation bill.
“I have to object to the process that we are tackling today,” said Hauter. “When you have a process of fundamentally changing the practice of medicine, and we’re putting it inside a shell bill.”
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