FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Statement from State Sen. Tyler Johnson
State Senator Dr. Tyler Johnson (R-Leo) made the following statement after the Senate passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 17, which condemns physician-assisted suicide:
STATEHOUSE (March 5, 2024) – "Senate Concurrent Resolution 17 condemns and opposes physician-assisted suicide. Those in support will often use softened terms like medical assistance in dying to try to make suicide sound satisfactory, but let us not be confused - we are discussing a physician taking steps to end a patient's life.
"Physicians are typically with their patient during the patient's most vulnerable moments. That alone carries a responsibility that most professions do not. It is a far stretch to get from palliative care and allowing natural death to physician-assisted suicide. Unfortunately, there are people in the world that have embraced this evil to promote suicide among the most vulnerable individuals.
"You cannot compassionately kill a patient and you cannot care for the patient you are comfortable killing. As a physician in my fifteenth year of medicine, I cannot fathom what it feels like to give up and stop trying. Physician-assisted suicide is contrary to a physician's duty as a healer and undermines the physician-patient relationship, and we must condemn this unethical medical practice."
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State Senator Dr. Tyler Johnson (R-Leo) represents Senate District 14,
which includes portions of Allen and DeKalb counties.
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