The Opposing Effort Begins Anew

Joint Committee on Public Health 2025 – 2026

Each new legislative session sees the reintroduction of the assisted suicide bill dubbed “End of Life Options Act.” This year’s bills, identical House and Senate versions, have their temporary designations as HD2540 and SD1665. The cosponsor list is growing. They will soon be assigned to the Joint Committee on Public Health, after which the bills names will change.

The committee members are now known. The time has come yet again to begin anew our efforts to oppose it passage. This opposition takes two forms of actions: with legislators and with the public, the second of which is aimed at increasing the first.

Legislative Action

Check if one of your legislators is on the Joint Committee of Public Health. Voicing your opposition will have a greater impact on the bills.
Check if one of your legislators is a co-sponsor. While some cannot be persuaded to change their positions despite what constituents say, others become co-sponsors even if they are still open to hearing what you have to say. At the very least, let them know you oppose the bills.
Unsure where your legislators stand? Ask them where they stand and let them know you oppose the bill. Let us know if they have a clear position on the bills.

Find out who your legislators are and call, email, fax, or write a letter. You can write something like this:

The Massachusetts End of Life Options Act would authorize medical aid in dying in Massachusetts. The so-called “safeguards” cannot be enforced because they do not have any real oversight, these laws expand once legalized, and too many vulnerable people will be driven to use the law by a broken health care system. This practice simply cannot be done safely. Please oppose SD.1665/HD.2540: An Act Relative to End of Life Options.

Public Action

Send us a personal story – this is key! Have you or someone you know personally experienced any of these situations?
- My have considered assisted suicide due to failures in the health care system?
- Been pressured to give up treatment despite expressing a clear desire for care?
- Outlived a prognosis?
- Experienced discrimination regarding one’s quality of life based on disability?
Prepare to engage the print media. For now, things are quiet on this issue and hopefully will stay so, but we do not expect they will. Consider writing a letter to the editor so it will be ready to send to your local newspaper.
Connect on social media. Just simply reposting amplifies and spreads the message. Include other organizations listed on Stopping Assisted Suicide.
Speak with people you know. Whether it is your family, friends, parish, prayer group. or other social organization, remind those who also oppose this issue to make their opposition known. Yet so many people have no idea that people are even thinking about this issue, never mind that the state is considering legalizing it! discuss it with others and let them know that it can never be safely legalized.