May 22, 2025
While progressive states like New York move to expand access to physician-assisted suicide, Nevada has taken a very different stance. Assembly Bill 346, which aimed to legalize the practice for terminally ill patients with a prognosis of six months or less to live, was halted last Friday after failing to meet a crucial Senate committee deadline. Though the bill narrowly passed the Assembly in a 23-19 vote, it faced firm opposition in the Senate and from Governor Joe Lombardo, who pledged to veto the bill if it ever reached his desk. This marks the sixth failed attempt to pass such legislation in Nevada since 2017. Pro-life advocates and the Nevada Coalition played a key role in the bill’s defeat, mobilizing outreach efforts, publishing opinion pieces, and directly lobbying lawmakers to ensure the proposal would not advance.
Opponents of physician-assisted suicide argue the legislation is not only flawed but dangerous. Dr. Kirk Bronander, a Nevada-based internal medicine physician, warned that terminal diagnoses are often uncertain and that patients could be pressured into ending their lives prematurely based on faulty prognoses. He also expressed concern over weak safeguards, stating it’s far too easy to find a second provider to approve the procedure. Bronander further warned that legalizing assisted suicide creates dangerous incentives, particularly for insurance companies that may prefer the cheaper route of ending life over costly treatments. Advocates for life insist the focus should be on expanding compassionate, life-affirming care—not on hastening death.
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SOURCE: Harbinger's Daily