cruxnow.com
2026-02-27
Two months ago, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said the state would make assisted suicide available to terminally ill people determined by doctors to have less than six months to live.
There were already 12 U.S. states that legalized assisted suicide, and Oregon, the first state to approve assisted suicide, had a dramatic spike in non-medicalized suicide afterwards that peaked at 41 percent.
"There is a blatant double standard in promoting suicide for some and seeking to prevent the suicide of others," Joseph Meaney told Crux Now.
He is the Past President and Senior Ethicist of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, and recently wrote an article on the rising rates of suicide in states and countries that have legalized medically assisted suicide.