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Breakpoint

Colorado and Assisted Suicide

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, Culture, Christianity, Currentevents, Worldview, News

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Legislation and litigation continue to erode the notion of the sanctity of life. 

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In 2016, Canada legalized medical assistance and dying or made. Less than a

0:58.2

decade later, the practice accounts for one in 20 of all deaths in that country. Just how quickly

1:04.0

that deadly practice expanded there underscores that everywhere it has been legalized the so-called right to die

1:12.0

inevitably becomes the duty to die. In fact, assisted suicide is always a slippery slope.

1:18.1

Once passed, these laws always expand. In Canada, the law was recently amended to allow anyone

1:23.9

with a mental illness like PTSD or depression to obtain life-ending drugs. In the

1:29.2

Netherlands, government surveys recently uncovered thousands of cases in which doctors, quote,

1:34.8

intentionally administered lethal injections to patients without a request, and that included

1:40.5

children, the demented, and the mentally ill. It was also in 2016 that Colorado voters approved the End-of-Life Options Act,

1:47.9

which allows physicians to prescribe lethal drugs to adult residents with so-called terminal diagnoses.

1:54.7

And a recent pair of lawsuits there demonstrate just how slippery that slope has been, too.

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Last year, the governor signed legislation to allow

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