Showing posts with label Donna Soucy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donna Soucy. Show all posts

Friday, February 23, 2018

SB 490 Was Gateway to Assisted Suicide and the Senate Just Slammed It Shut, For Now

Senator Donna
 Soucy, Esq.
By Ellen Kolb*

SB 490 was gateway to assisted suicide [legalization], and the Senate just slammed it shut for now

On a 12-10 vote, the New Hampshire Senate has killed a bill that would have paved the way for assisted suicide. I did not see that result coming. Thank-yous are in order, including one I didn’t think I’d ever be writing.

Voting “inexpedient to legislate,” sending the bill into the trash heap: Senators Bob Giuda, James Gray, Harold French, Ruth Ward, Gary Daniels, Kevin Avard, John Reagan, Donna Soucy, Regina Birdsell, Chuck Morse, William Gannon, and Dan Innis. If any one of them had voted differently, today’s outcome would have been different.