Oregon Bill Would Allow Non-Physicians to Prescribe Assisted Suicide Drugs

Leslie Wolfgang-Live Action : Feb 20, 2025
LiveAction, LifeSiteNews

Oregon's Senate Bill 1003 would allow physician assistants and nurse practitioners to prescribe assisted suicide drugs in addition to doctors, expanding the scope of the life-ending procedure.

[LifeSiteNews.com] An Oregon bill would expand the state's current law to permit physician assistants and nurse practitioners to prescribe "medication" to help a person to commit suicide. (Image: iStock-David Hills)

Senate Bill 1003 changes the term "attending physician" to "prescribing provider," and "consulting physician" to "consulting provider." The term "provider" would be defined as a physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner under Oregon law. This bill represents the first time that non-physicians would be authorized to assist the killing of a person in the United States.

Nurses participate in the euthanasia and assisted suicide of persons in Canada, where the country's "Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAiD) rates are already high and continuing to increase. According to 2023 statistics, these practitioner-assisted killings account for 4.7 percent, or 1 in 20 deaths, in Canada.

In the United States, assisted suicide organizations continually seek its expansion, yet the US numbers aren't yet even close to Canada's; assisted suicide rates in California in 2023 were a mild 0.3 percent of the population comparatively... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

Continue reading Here.