The slippery slope of assisted suicide in Minnesota

Republican legislators are speaking out against a renewed push to bring assisted suicide to Minnesota, calling the proposal a “literal poison pill.”

DFL legislators indicated last week that they will use the 2024 session — the last guaranteed year of their trifecta — to pass an “End of Life Options Act,” which would authorize doctors to prescribe lethal medication to mentally-capable adults with a terminal illness (six months or less to live).

The policy item apparently got lost in the shuffle during the 2023 session and didn’t receive a hearing in either the House or Senate.