A California senator has just introduced a new bill to expand assisted suicide but has not yet revealed all the details. However, based on her past efforts—including last year’s SB 1196, which sought to legalize euthanasia for people with dementia and other non-terminal conditions—we know exactly where this is headed.
The bill was so extreme that even Compassion and Choices—the Planned Parenthood of the assisted suicide movement—refused to support it. Not because they oppose euthanasia, but because they believed it was “too much too soon.”
SB 1196 would have:
🚨 Legalized assisted suicide for people with non-terminal conditions like diabetes or high blood pressure if they decided their treatment was “unacceptable.”
🚨 Allowed lethal drugs to be administered via IV injection, removing the safeguard that patients must self-ingest, and paving the way for involuntary euthanasia.
🚨 Enabled people to request assisted suicide long before they were sick—meaning they could be killed even if they later showed signs of wanting to live.
The bill was backed by A Better Exit, an organization founded by a member of the Hemlock Society—the same group whose founder, Derek Humphrey, admitted to killing his wife with an overdose and said he was prepared to suffocate her with a pillow if necessary.
This is not about “compassion.” It’s about making it easier for doctors, caregivers, and even government-appointed guardians to decide when someone else should die.
If we don’t stop this, people with early-stage dementia could be given lethal drugs while they are still healthy—with no safeguards to prevent coercion or abuse.
At Life Legal, we have battled Compassion and Choices before—including in a case where a wife sought to deny food and water to her disabled husband over his family’s objections. We have also intervened in multiple cases where family members sought to hasten the deaths of loved ones who had become “too expensive” or “too burdensome” to care for.
The push for assisted suicide in California has accelerated at an alarming pace:
❌ 2015: Lawmakers passed the so-called “End of Life Option Act,” legalizing assisted suicide.
❌ 2021: They slashed safeguards, reducing the waiting period from 15 days to just 48 hours.
❌ Now: They want to expand it to people who can’t even consent.
Where does this end?
Life Legal is on the front lines of this fight, including our legal challenge to the End of Life Option Act itself. But we cannot fight this alone.
Take Action Now:
Contact Senator Blakespear today and tell her NO expansion of assisted suicide in California!
📞 Call or email her office: https://sd38.senate.ca.gov/contact
Sample message:
“Senator Blakespear, I strongly oppose any expansion of California’s assisted suicide law. Expanding assisted suicide to people with dementia and cognitive impairments endangers the most vulnerable and eliminates safeguards against coercion and abuse. Please do not push California further down the path toward euthanasia.”
We need your help NOW.
Your tax-deductible gift will allow us to:
✅ Expose and defeat this deadly proposal before it gains traction.
✅ Defend vulnerable patients from being pressured into an early death.
✅ Fight back in court to challenge laws that expand California’s dangerous assisted suicide scheme.
If we don’t act now, this won’t stop with dementia patients—it will only get worse.
Please stand with us today!