Colorado Assisted Suicides Increase as More People Kill Themselves Every Year

The 2023 Colorado assisted suicide report indicates that assisted suicide poison prescriptions and deaths have continued to rise every year since legalization.

Even though the number of assisted suicide deaths is continually increasing Colorado Governor Gary Polis signed Senate Bill 24-068 on June 5 to expand their State assisted suicide law. Nearly every state that has legalized assisted suicide has expanded their law.

The Colorado assisted suicide report indicated that in 2023 there were 389 lethal poison prescriptions written, which was up by more than 22% from 318 in 2022 and 218 in 2021.

The Colorado report indicated that in 2023, 294 of the lethal poison prescriptions were dispensed which was up by more than 18% from 249 in 2022 and 164 in 2021.

Click Like if you are pro-life to like the LifeNews Facebook page!

Colorado does not collect information on how many people actually died by assisted suicide.

We expect that the 2024 Colorado assisted suicide report will show more increases in deaths now that Colorado expanded their assisted suicide law in 2024.

The assisted suicide lobby knows that it is harder to legalize assisted suicide than to expand the law once it is legal. Nearly every state that has legalized assisted suicide has later expanded their law.

LifeNews.com Note: Alex Schadenberg is the executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and you can read his blog here.

The post Colorado Assisted Suicides Increase as More People Kill Themselves Every Year appeared first on LifeNews.com.