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Please Stand Strong Against Physician-Assisted Suicide
Dear Maryland lawmaker,
I want to thank you for standing strong and voting against physician-assisted suicide in 2019. Your vote was critical in ensuring our state remains protected from this dangerous practice.
I am writing today to ask you to continue to stand strong against the agenda to bring assisted suicide to Maryland, which has renewed its efforts in 2020.
I know this is a deeply emotional issue, but it is also one that is rife with misinformation. Despite proponents’ claims that the bill contains “safeguards” for vulnerable people — like those who have a disability, the elderly, and people of color — those are in fact an illusion.
The bill introduced last week, HB 643 / SB 701, is the same misguided policy you that you have rejected in the past. In fact, the bill still:
- Does not require formal mental health evaluations
- Does not require witnesses at the time of death to ensure vulnerable persons aren’t coerced into taking their own lives, or have their lives ended against their will
- Fails to provide any mechanism to hold physicians who prescribe the lethal drugs accountable for errors or negligence
- Mandates physicians falsify death certificates and list the patient’s illness, not their choice to commit suicide, as the cause of death
- Provides zero mechanism to account for and recover the massive doses of fatal drugs that would be prescribed to ensure they don’t end up in the wrong hands and make our state’s prescription drug epidemic even worse
- Exposes terminally-ill patients in Maryland to the risk of being denied insurance coverage of life-saving treatments in favor of cheaper, life-ending drugs.
Across the country, all of this is happening in states that have legalized the practice. As a constitutent in Maryland, I am asking you to remain strong and again reject this dangerous agenda, and keep Maryland safe from assisted suicide.
Thank you for helping protect our great state.
summary
Proponents of the dangerous practice of physician-assisted suicide have returned to Maryland for a fifth time to try and push their agenda through our state. Last year the bill failed thanks to many legislators who voted against it. With your help, it will fail to pass again this year.who will receive your email?
Charles Syndor Senator
Adelaide Eckardt Senator
Andrew Serafini Senator
Antonio Hayes Senator
Arthur Ellis Senator
Bryan Simonaire Senator
Douglas Peters Senator
Edward Reilly Senator
George Edwards Senator
J. B. Jennings Senator
Jack Bailey Senator
Jason Gallion Senator
Jim Rosapepe Senator
Joanne Benson Senator
Johnny Salling Senator
Justin Ready Senator
Malcolm Augustine Senator
Mary Beth Carozza Senator
Melony Griffith Senator
Michael Hough Senator
Pamela Beidle Senator
Robert Cassilly Senator
Stephen Hershey Senator
Thomas Miller Senator
Adrienne Jones Representative
Andrea Harrison Representative
Anne Healey Representative
April Rose Representative
Barrie Ciliberti Representative
Brian Chisholm Representative
Brian Crosby Representative
C. T. Wilson Representative
Carl Anderton Representative
Charles Otto Representative
Christopher Adams Representative
Dalya Attar Representative
Dan Cox Representative
Darryl Barnes Representative
Debra Davis Representative
Dereck Davis Representative
Edith Patterson Representative
Geraldine Valentino-Smith Representative
Harry Bhandari Representative
Haven Shoemaker Representative
Jason Buckel Representative
Jay Jacobs Representative
Jay Walker Representative
Jay Jalisi Representative
Jazz Lewis Representative
Jefferson Ghrist Representative
Jerry Clark Representative
Jesse Pippy Representative
Johnny Mautz Representative
Joseph Boteler Representative
Kathy Szeliga Representative
Kevin Hornberger Representative
Lauren Arikan Representative
Mark Chang Representative
Mark Fisher Representative
Matthew Morgan Representative
Michael Jackson Representative
Michael Malone Representative
Mike McKay Representative
Mike Rogers Representative
Ned Carey Representative
Neil Parrott Representative
Nicholaus Kipke Representative
Nick Charles Representative
Nino Mangione Representative
Paul Corderman Representative
Ric Metzgar Representative
Rick Impallaria Representative
Robert Long Representative
Robin Grammer Representative
Ron Watson Representative
Seth Howard Representative
Sid Saab Representative
Steven Arentz Representative
Susan McComas Representative
Susan Krebs Representative
Teresa Reilly Representative
Veronica Turner Representative
Wanika Fisher Representative
Warren Miller Representative
Wayne Hartman Representative
Wendell Beitzel Representative
William Wivell Representative
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why sign?
- The bill was defeated in 2019 thanks to strong legislators willing to stand up against this dangerous practice. We need them to continue to stand strong.
- Still, out-of-state groups continue to try and push their dangerous agenda in Maryland.
- Maryland rejected physician-assisted suicide each time it has been proposed in our state.
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