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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMedia Contact: Michele Sterlace-Accorsi, (716) 864 1454,  info@fclny.org Rochester, NY, July 15, 2025 – Following in the footsteps of the Democratic controlled New York State Assembly, and at the bitter end of NY’s 2025 legislative session, assisted suicide or Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) passed in the NYS Senate, as many folks are already aware.  The Medical Aid in Dying Act,  S138 ,  however,  has still not been delivered to NY's Governor for signature. If Governor Hochul fails to sign it, once delivered to her, MAID will die, or undergo a 'pocket veto' according to  Article IV, Section 7 of the New York State Constitution. "We are deeply disappointed that the senate passed MAID, and ask the NYS legislature to refrain from sending the bill to Governor Hochul for signature. But if they do, we urge our Governor to reject legalizing assisted suicide by refusing to sign the MAID bill," states Cecelia Lester, President of Feminists Choosing Life of New York (FCLNY), a statewide human rights organization that promotes non-violence and the consistent life ethic. “In 2024, Governor Hochul ensured millions of dollars for suicide prevention efforts in NY," says Michele Sterlace-Accorsi, FCLNY’s executive director; “On behalf of our brothers and sisters at risk of suicide, we’re asking the NYS legislature to bury MAID, and for the Governor to stand strong and true to her  word  to keep fighting to end the violence of suicide, including assisted suicide or MAID." Sterlace-Accorsi claims, Empirical  evidence   demonstrates that where assisted suicide is legalized, total suicide rates significantly increase, including non-assisted suicide rates in some cases. No study has identified a reduction in non-assisted suicide rates where MAID is legal.  Data  outlined by the Centre for Economic Policy Research show that assisted suicide laws increase total suicide rates by 18% overall and by 40% for women, with non-assisted suicide rates rising by 6% overall and 13% for women. She goes on to state, Recent statistical  analysis   on suicide in the United States shows rates of suicide have reached record high levels not seen “since 1941.” NY’s  suicide rate   has increased by 34.9% over the past 20 years. Suicide in  NY   is the 2nd leading cause of death for ages 25-34, and the 3rd leading cause of death for ages 10-24, where suicide rates have increased by 62% nationwide from 2007-2021, according to the  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . Further,  research   released during the summer of 2024 by the Yale School of Medicine found that suicide is dramatically rising in preteens as young as 8 years old, with an 8.2% annual increase from 2008 to 2022.” “As thoughtful, kind people how can we do anything but work to decrease rates of suicide?” She adds. “How could Governor Hochul possibly sign into law a bill that normalizes suicide, threatens to increase suicide rates, disproportionately impacts women, and thwarts suicide prevention efforts?”

FCLNY is humbly asking you to help stop assisted suicide or MAID from passing in the NYS Senate, and for you to share this outreach letter with others that you think will also make calls. We have a small window of continued opportunity to defeat MAID in the NYS Senate. The bill, S.138, could come up for a NYS Senate floor vote any day, literally. We have identified vulnerable NYS Senators to receive calls from as many registered NY voters as possible. Please call each NYS Senator listed below (in their District and Albany offices). Please ask some of your friends and family to call each of these NYS Senators as well. THESE CALLS MUST BE MADE ASAP, before the NYS Legislative Session ends on THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2025 Here is a simple draft SCRIPT (Just leave a message if no one answers the phone. You can call after 5 PM, if you can't get to it earlier in the day.) Dear Senator  _______, I am a voting New Yorker, and as a registered NY voter, I am urging you to VOTE NO to the Medical Aid in Dying Act, S.138; not only on my behalf, but on behalf of my colleagues across New York State. Empirical data demonstrates that when MAID is legalized, overall suicide rates significantly increase, including non-assisted suicide rates, in some cases. MAID normalizes suicide and threatens suicide prevention efforts. Every major national disability organization that has taken a stance on assisted suicide opposes MAID. The American Medical Association opposes MAID. Research consistently shows the ineffectiveness of MAID safeguards, including those contained in S.138. The MAID bill contains no ban on lethal drugs being sent across state lines. Please VOTE NO TO S.138. LIST OF CRUCIAL NYS SENATORS TO CALL BY JUNE 12, 2025: 1. Shelly Mayer: District (914) 934-5250/ Albany (518) 455-2031 2. Brian Kavanaugh: District (212) 298-5565/ Albany (518) 455-2625 3. Jamal Bailey: District (718) 547-8854/Albany (518) 455-2061 4. Patricia Fahy: District (518) 842-2159/ Albany (518) 455-2225 5. Joseph Addabbo: District (718) 738-1111/ Albany (518) 455-2322 6. April Baskin: District (716) 826-2683/ Albany (518) 455-2426 7. Monica Martinez: District (631) 341-7111/ Albany (518) 455-2765 8. Cordell Cleare: District (212) 222-7315/ Albany (518) 455-2441 9. Andrea Stewart-Cousins: District (914) 423-4031/ Albany (518) 455-2585 10. John Liu: District (718) 765-6675/ Albany (518) 455-2210 11. Andrew Gounardes: District (718) 238-6044/ Albany (518) 455-3270 12. Siela Bynoe: District (516) 739-1700/ Albany (518) 455-3260 13. Toby Ann Stavisky: District (718) 445-0004/ Albany (518) 455-3461 14. Kevin Parker: District (718) 629-6401/ Albany (518) 455-2580 15. Rob Rolison: District (845) 229- 0106/Albany (518) 455-2945 16. Jack Martins: District (516) 922-1811/ Albany (518) 455-2677 THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP! Please reach out anytime with any questions or concerns, (716) 864-1454, info@fclny.org . Michele Sterlace-Accorsi FCLNY, Executive Director

Feminists Choosing Life of New York, Inc., is a statewide human rights organization that advocates for non-violence from conception to natural death. Our supporters across New York recognize the power of peaceful, life-affirming solutions to the distresses vulnerable people experience.  We believe our elderly, infirm and disabled brothers and sisters, pregnant mothers and their unborn children, as well as every person at risk of suicide, deserve our best resources and protection against human rights violations, including the fundamental right to live free from violent destruction— the most basic human right of every member of the human family.  PROGRESSIVE SOCIETIES DO NOT LEGALLY SANCTION AND FUND  KILLING HUMAN BEINGS The pending MAID or Assisted Suicide bills threaten to Violate Human Rights Significantly Increase Overall Suicide Rates, including Non-Assisted Suicide Rates Jeopardize Suicide Prevention Efforts   NY’s MAID bills permit doctors to give qualifying people, including teenagers (18 & 19 year olds) a lethal overdose of drugs to self-administer.  Studies  show “prognostic error is widespread,“ that doctors charged with determining whether an individual qualifies or is plagued with a terminal illness that will cause death within 6 months have an accuracy rate of only 20%.  There is ample  “evidence that patients, including with disabilities, are being denied treatment by insurers and offered assisted suicide instead.” Data reveals that when medical aid in dying is legalized “it immediately becomes the cheapest treatment. Direct coercion is not necessary.” Where insurers “deny or even simply delay approval of expensive life-sustaining treatment,” patients are more susceptible to self-initiated deaths. The current NY MAID bills allow “abusive caregiver s  …[to] steer someone toward it, witness the request, pick up the lethal dose, and even, in the end, give the drug- because when the lethal agents are administered, no witnesses are required.”  Research consistently demonstrates the ineffectiveness of ‘safeguards’ in MAID laws, including those contained in NY’s pending MAID bills. Data demonstrates how purported patient ‘protections’ are readily circumvented, and ultimately fail  to ensure the mental capacity of potential MAID patients, and to protect them from social, familial and financial pressures to end their own lives– to commit suicide.  Every  “prominent national disability organization that takes any position on assisted suicide laws is in opposition.” The American Medical Association opposes MAID.  Robust research demonstrates that legalizing assisted suicide is associated with a “significant increase  in total suicides,” which includes non-assisted suicides.  Studies show rates of self-initiated deaths increase significantly after the legalization of assisted suicide, and that these rates  increase for non-assisted suicides as well, in some cases. No study exists showing any decline in non-assisted suicide rates where MAID is legal. The increase in suicide rates (assisted and non assisted) where MAID proposals are legalized “disproportionately” impact   women .  Research  “estimates suggest assisted suicide laws increase total suicide rates by about 18% overall. For women, the estimated increase is 40%.” Increasing evidence  shows that legalizing assisted suicide or MAID is a “threat to suicide prevention.” Suicide prevention  programs are effective. The “suicide rate in New York  has increased by 34.9% over the past 20 years”  In NY, s uicide  is the “2nd leading cause of death for ages 25-34” and the “3rd leading cause of death for ages 10-24.”  Every “16 hours, someone dies from suicide in  New York City ” According to recent statistical analysis  on suicide in the United States, U.S. suicide rates reached “record highs” in 2024, “ rates reaching levels not seen since 1941.” “This marks a concerning 30% increase over the past two decades,” “indicating a persistent upward trend.”  Suicide   “deaths among 10- to 24-year-olds increased by 62% from 2007 to 2021 .” Research   released during the summer of 2024 “found that suicide is rising dramatically in preteens as young as 8 years old as well, with an 8.2% annual increase from 2008 to 2022 .” Legalizing MAID threatens to Normalize Suicide Increase Overall Suicide Rates Jeopardize Suicide Prevention Efforts Violate the Human Rights of all New Yorkers, especially Women and the Disabled  We can do better. We must do better.  On behalf of the weakest and most marginalized among us, across New York, please reject the violence of MAID.

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LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY FCLNY organizes and participates in both direct and grassroots lobbying on targeted policy issues as well as coordinated media outreach. FCLNY is non-partisan, but works with diverse ideological and/or religious organizations that align with our goals. New York State Medical Aid in Dying Act Pending in NYS The Medical Aid in Dying Act (MAID) (S138 / A136 ) allows for ‘mentally competent’ ‘terminally ill’ people, beginning at age 18, to request and consume deadly medication that will end their lives. Versions of MAID were first introduced in the New York legislature in 2015, and consistently reintroduced during every subsequent legislative term, including in January of 2025. For the first time in NY history, MAID passed in both legislative chambers. Though it passed the MAID bill has NOT YET been sent to Governor Hochul for review and signature. The Governor must sign the bill-for it to become law, or either veto or ignore the bill-for it to die, once delivered to her, by the end of 2025. The fate of MAID is uncertain. If you haven’t already- please reach out to Governor Hochul, and ask her to veto MAID, S138. https://www.governor.ny.gov/content/governor-contact-form MAID threatens the horizon and the dignity of human life at its natural end. MAID dehumanizes and devalues the aged, diseased, and disabled. MAID normalizes suicide and decriminalizes assisted suicide. According to the National Council on Disability “The evidence strongly suggests that … safeguards are circumvented in ways that are harmful to patients.” NY’s pending MAID Act goes far out of its way to forbid referencing death by an intentional dose of lethal medication as a suicide, and to protect accomplices of such suicides from criminal prosecution. MAID clearly supports suicide and excuses assisted suicide for a select group of people. Webster’s dictionary defines suicide as “the act or instance of taking one’s own life voluntarily and intentionally.” MAID destigmatizes the gravity of suicide and undermines the value of human life. MAID is legal in ONLY eleven U.S. jurisdictions including Oregon , New Mexico , Colorado, and Montana where suicide is a leading cause of death, including among youth . “When assisted suicide is legalized it immediately becomes the cheapest treatment.” If health “insurers deny, or even simply delay approval of expensive life-sustaining treatment, patients can be steered toward hastening their deaths.” "There is robust evidence , taken from different jurisdictions and using a variety of statistical methods, that the total number of self initiated deaths rises significantly where [Assisted Suicide] is legally available, and strong evidence that this has a greater impact on older women.” A growing body of research demonstrates that a significant portion of terminally ill patients consider themselves a burden to family and others. The evidence also identifies "self-perceived burden" as a relevant factor in making end of life and death-hastening decisions. Numerous professional associations and organizations oppose ASSISTED SUICIDE, including, the American Medical Association , World Medical Association , National Council on Disability, and the American Association of People with Disabilities. Update on the Status of Medication Abortion in the U.S. and NYS In FDA vs. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (2024), "The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled to preserve access to the abortion pill mifepristone, a pill used in the most common way to end a pregnancy." "Thousands of women in states with abortion bans and restrictions are receiving abortion pills in the mail from states that have laws protecting prescribers," including New York. It is currently legal for medical providers and certified retail pharmacies to mail abortion pills to women and girls with a prescription via tele-health in NY. Under the current rules surrounding chemical abortion, pregnant women and girls can "take the medication to induce an abortion through 10 weeks of pregnancy," and without a pre-abortion ultrasound. Read High Court's Opinion Here! The RHA Degrades Women and Dehumanizes Children. New York enacted the Reproductive Health Act (RHA) in January, 2019. This law allows for the killing of viable unborn children, including healthy children in utero, for any reason within 24 weeks of pregnancy. Modern medical science is clear that unborn children can be viable (capable of survival outside the womb) as early as 21 weeks gestation. The RHA permits killing viable unborn children, including healthy children in utero, during the later-second and third trimester of pregnancy for reasons unrelated to a mother's physical health. In NY, approximately 1,600 unborn children are aborted each year at 20+ weeks gestation. Studies show most later-term abortions are 'elective,' performed on healthy pregnant women and healthy unborn children. The RHA did away with NY's longstanding fetal homicide law. Because of the RHA it is no longer a separate crime in NY for abusers to kill viable unborn children, including wanted unborn children, in attacks on their mothers. The RHA allows for an undefined group of health care practitioners to perform abortions, including surgical, second and third trimester abortions. Studies show that even mid-level health care providers that perform abortions have higher rates of “incomplete abortion,” uterine “perforation” and “hemorrhage” than physicians performing abortions. The RHA eradicated NY Public Health Law (PHL) 4164, without enacting any form of replacement. In NY, later-second and third trimester abortions can occur in facilities other than hospitals, ambulatory centers or physicians' offices. According to studies, including, Risk Factors for Legal Induced Abortion-Related Mortality in the United States, the "risk of death" for "women obtaining legally induced abortions" "increase[s] exponentially by 38% for each additional week of gestation.” Further, eliminating PHL 4164 allows for infants who survive abortion to die without adequate "medical care" or without a second physician present to care for that infant. According to the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention children are sometimes born alive during later-term induced abortions. 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