• Repeal our prohibition on physician assisted suicide (PAS).
• Turn Michigan into a suicide tourism destination.

Allowing physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to their patients is not only fraught with ethical concerns, it is NOT “dignified.” Physician assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer, would be difficult or impossible to control, and would pose serious risks to Michiganders. 

We need you to help get the word out! Let your legislators know that:

• Rising healthcare costs and pressures from insurance companies to cut expenses are threatening access to quality healthcare and prescription medicines. Injecting a lethal option for those who often have the highest healthcare costs, and the pressure to “choose” the more economic, yet deadly option, quickly erodes any achievement in expanding access to high standards of healthcare.
• PAS places the sick, vulnerable, elderly, and those living with disabilities at risk of abuse, denial of care and coercion.
• Minority communities and people of color are put at greater risk for denied coverage. A 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation survey on racism, discrimination, and health found that people of color often experience discrimination when seeking medical care. With the cheaper assisted suicide “option” available, those facing existing healthcare disparities may be offered this option rather than more expensive care.
• In 2023, the American Medical Association and Michigan State Medical Society both reaffirmed their opposition to assisted suicide.
• Hospice and palliative care should be offered to the terminally ill as a way to walk with the dying instead of abandoning them to self-inflicted death.

Please fill out the form and urge your legislator to reject S.B. 678-681 and vote NO on physician-assisted suicide.