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Pritzker weighs assisted suicide bill
News journal of the Illinois Baptist State Association
DECEMBER 1, 2025
Nonprofit Organization U.S. POSTAGE PAID Peoria, Illinois Permit No. 964
Vol. 119 No. 12
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Springfield | Gov. J.B. Pritzker seemed surprised by passage of an assisted suicide bill for terminally ill patients when pressed by a group of reporters in Chicago. “I’m looking at it,” Pritzker said in early November. As he considers signing the legislation allowing physician-assisted suicide, pro-life groups are urging Illinoisans to notify Pritzker of their objections. The act was passed by the state senate in the early morning hours on Friday, October 31, the final day of the veto session. “It was something that I didn’t expect and didn’t know was going to be voted on,” Pritzker said, “so we’re examining it, even now.” SB 1950 was attached to a bill regulating food sanitation, a move that an opposition group, Patients Rights Action Fund, implied was underhanded. “Legalizing assisted suicide disguised as a sanitation bill undermines long-standing efforts in suicide prevention and could dangerously shift the standard of care in health care facilities,” a PRAF statement said. The group urged Pritzker P. 3