Kentucky Right to Life Stands with National Right to Life in Condemning Neighboring Illinois for Advancing Dangerous Assisted Suicide Legislation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, October 31, 2025
Contact: Addia K Wuchner, Executive Director, Kentucky Right to Life
Phone: 859-802-9590
Email: addia@kyrightolife.org
In solidarity with our national partners, Kentucky Right to Life stands with National Right to Life in strongly condemning the Illinois Senate’s passage of Senate Bill 1950, a measure that legalizes assisted suicide and endangers countless vulnerable Illinois citizens.
In the very early hours of Friday morning, during a late-night veto session, the Illinois Senate narrowly passed SB 1950 by a vote of 30–27, with two members not voting. The bill advanced only after the House gutted an unrelated food safety measure and replaced it with language legalizing assisted suicide. The bill now moves to Governor J.B. Pritzker for consideration.
“As our neighboring state moves toward normalizing assisted suicide, we cannot remain silent,” said Addia Wuchner, R.N., Executive Director of Kentucky Right to Life. “This legislation reflects a tragic and confused understanding of compassion that intentionally ends a life. Misdirected or confused compassion does not ease suffering—it abandons the sufferer. True compassion walks with individuals in their pain, providing care, support, and hope—not a prescription that ends their lives.”
Wuchner continued: “The legalization of assisted suicide creates a dangerous climate where the elderly, people with disabilities, the chronically ill, and those battling depression may begin to feel pressure to choose death to avoid being a ‘burden.’ This is not dignity, and it is certainly not care. It is the quiet erosion of society’s responsibility to affirm the inherent worth of every human life.”
“We urge Governor Pritzker to veto this deeply troubling bill,” Wuchner said. “Real compassion means investing in hospice, palliative care, mental health resources, and the unwavering message that every life has dignity—always, and until natural death.”
Illinois Senate Bill 195O passage provides the full spectrum of end-of-life care, as they join 10 other states and the District of Washington, D.C. who have also enacted similar laws. Kentucky Right to Life warns that Illinois’ actions encourages the deepening cultural confusion about suffering, caregiving, and authentic compassion.
Kentucky Right to Life remains committed to defending the vulnerable and advocating policies that uphold the value of every person, especially in moments of weakness, illness, or fear.
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