{"id":15003,"date":"2025-12-18T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15003"},"modified":"2025-12-18T05:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:04:03","slug":"gov-hochul-signs-bill-doctors-can-kill-their-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15003","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Hochul signs bill; doctors can kill their patients."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hochul writes that doctor assisted suicide is a “civil rights” issue<\/a> on a par with gay marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s an excellent article in the NYP on her decision. I’m surprised it took this long for the Democrat Party – in total control of NY State government – to get this passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday\u00a0she\u2019ll sign a controversial doctor-assisted suicide bill\u00a0\u2013 capping a years-long battle over making New York a state that allows terminally ill people to take their own lives. Many religious leaders and disability advocates quickly condemned Hochul\u2019s decision to approve the Medical Aid in Dying Act, while the governor cast it as civil rights issue on par with gay marriage.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Medical Aid in Dying Act will afford terminally ill New Yorkers the right to spend their final days not under sterile hospital lights but with sunlight streaming through their bedroom window,\u201d\u00a0Hochul wrote in a\u00a0Times Union op-ed<\/a>\u00a0outlining her decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe right to spend their final days not hearing the droning hum of hospital machines but instead the laughter of their grandkids echoing in the next room. The right to tell their family they love them and be able to hear those precious words in return.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What drivel. She never heard of Hospice?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A highly contentious fight led up to the bill\u2019s razor-thin passage by the state Legislature in June, with the Catholic Church, disability advocates and black and Jewish lawmakers pitted against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hochul – the self-proclaimed “social justice” Catholic.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was raised in a strong Catholic family, and for many, this is a moral decision, a moral judgment,\u201d Hochul said during a press conference announcing the signing at her Manhattan office Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cAnd to the members of the faith community who will not accept or understand this decision I\u2019ve made on behalf of not myself, but 20 million New Yorkers \u2014 no one has to do this. It\u2019s a choice,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hochul writes that doctor assisted suicide is a “civil rights” issue on a par with gay marriage. Here’s an excellent article in the NYP on her decision. I’m surprised it took this long for the Democrat Party – in total control of NY State government – to get this passed. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday\u00a0she\u2019ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-stuff","category-consistent-ethic-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15005,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15003\/revisions\/15005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}