Today's Tasks

Help Illinoisans Fight Back Against Assisted Suicide

On October 31, 2025, around 3:00 a.m., the Illinois legislature passed SB 1950—an assisted suicide bill disguised as a food safety amendment. For the disability community, this was no treat.

Despite united opposition from thousands of disabled advocates and allies, lawmakers ignored us. Nearly 6,000 people filed witness slips opposing SB 1950, compared to just 560 in support. The bill now heads to Governor Pritzker’s desk.

SB 1950—also called the “End of Life Options Act”—poses grave risks to disabled, chronically ill, and low-income people. Experience from other states and countries shows that so-called “Medical Aid in Dying” laws often pressure vulnerable patients into death instead of providing real care. Insurance companies have already denied life-saving treatments while offering to cover assisted suicide instead. That’s not choice—it’s coercion.

Why this bill is dangerous:

  • Illinois’ proposal has no oversight or audit system. It relies on self-reporting by providers.
  • Doctors misdiagnose “terminal” conditions frequently—studies show they’re wrong up to 80% of the time.
  • In states like Oregon, only 4% of patients are referred for psychiatric evaluation before receiving lethal prescriptions.
  • In Canada, assisted suicide expanded from terminal illness to include disability, mental illness, and even poverty.
  • The American Medical Association opposes assisted suicide as “incompatible with the physician’s role as healer.”

Disabled people are already denied equal access to care, housing, and income support. Adding assisted suicide to this broken system invites further harm. We need real options—palliative care, pain management, and community supports—not pressure to die. See our blog here for references & data, plus a call script here.

What to do now: We need your help!

Actions Needed

1) Contact Governor Pritzker to Ask him to Veto SB 1950

We urge Governor JB Pritzker to veto SB 1950.
If he does, it would take a 3/5 vote in the legislature to override it—so every voice matters. The bill barely passed the Senate, 30-27.

Contact JB Pritzker

2) Connect with the Patients' Rights Action Fund to Fight Back

The Patients' Rights Action Fund helped put together a coalition of diverse Illinois residents who know how harmful an assisted suicide bill can be. To connect with them & discuss any next steps, sign up for their newsletter with the button, or you can send an email to info@patientsrightsaction.org.

Contact PRAF to Connect & Organize

3) Spread the Word about SB 1950

Let you friends & loved ones know what Illinois has done & what avenue we have left (a veto) to stop this bill from becoming law. Share this information from Access Living, one of Illinois' leading disability advocacy groups, & encourage your friends to do the same. 

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