Unfortunately, Maryland legislators have consistently debated assisted suicide throughout the years, contemplating the legalization of this dangerous and discriminatory practice.  Please take a few moments to send a message today to your State Senator and State Delegate asking them to oppose all efforts to legalize assisted suicide IN 2026. It is vital that they hear from you!

Assisted suicide is dangerous and discriminatory policy that puts our vulnerable neighbors at risk. Suicide is not medical care, and Marylanders deserve better access to quality care, such as in-home hospice and palliative care, not an ill-conceived public policy that puts patients at risk of mistakes, coercion, and abuse.

Here are some of the reasons why they must oppose assisted suicide:

1. Patients have been denied coverage for lifesaving treatment and offered assisted suicide instead. In fact, patients are increasingly citing “financial implications of treatment” as a reason that they’re asking for drugs to end their life. 

2. Young women with anorexia have been given lethal drugs by their doctor under this same policy in Colorado and Oregon. 

3. Pain and suffering, or even concern about it, never make it into the top 5 reasons why patients die by assisted suicide in Oregon.  Rather, the most commonly cited reasons are disability related concerns, which is why the National Council on Disability rejects assisted suicide.

4. Mental conditions are ignored and depressed patients receive the lethal medications. 

5. Doctors make mistakes and patients who are not dying receive the prescription drugs. 

Assisted suicide laws abandon vulnerable patients and they impact everyone’s end of life care. Maryland legislators would be making a grave mistake to pursue this legislation. 

Please fill out the form and urge your legislator to reject this dangerous public policy.