Defeat SB 202!

The Montana Legislature is considering SB 202, which if passed, would legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia in Montana.

Under the bill, young adults with chronic conditions, such as diabetes, would be "eligible" for assisted suicide/euthanasia.  Such persons can live long healthy lives, for years, even decades. 

The bill, if passed, it will create the following problems:

• It will encourage people with years to live to throw away their lives.  
• It will create new paths of elder abuse, especially in the inheritance context.
• It will empower health care systems to steer patients to suicide, which is well documented in Oregon where assisted suicide is legal. 

If the bill is passed, and Montana follows the "Oregon experience," other conventional suicides will increase, which will create serious public welfare/financial issues in Montana (in Oregon, conventional suicides are a $41 million problem due to hospitalization costs, etc).

To view documentation regarding these problems, and other problems with legalization, please click here for the text; click here for the attachments

Please also tell the Montana Legislature to vote "NO" on SB 202.