'Pro-death legislators' want euthanasia in Illinois — Canada reveals why that's a terrible idea

Democratic lawmakers in the Illinois legislature have passed a bill that would legalize doctor-assisted suicide across the state.

The bill now awaiting Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker's signature, SB 1950 , originally started out as a measure concerning sanitary food preparation. The bill was, however, hollowed out then repurposed. Instead of keeping consumers healthy, the language was changed to expedite death — authorizing a qualified patient with a terminal disease to demand that their doctor prescribe a lethal dose of medication, thereby ending "the patient's life in a peaceful manner."

Catholic leaders in the state are among the bill's loudest critics.

'Now, they can prescribe death.'

In May, Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, wrote , "I have to ask why, in a time w