{"id":148552,"date":"2026-11-05T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148552"},"modified":"2026-11-05T12:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:57:03","slug":"nr-wesley-smith-five-new-democrat-state-trifectas-assisted-suicide-here-we-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148552","title":{"rendered":"(NR) Wesley Smith&#8211;Five New Democrat State Trifectas: Assisted Suicide, Here We Come"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The national elections, just completed, added five states that will be completely controlled by Democrats next year, i.e., legislature and governor. They are, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Every one of these is ripe for legalizing assisted suicide, as that policy is now part of the liberal\/progressive issue agenda. Most have already seen serious efforts to legalize doctor-prescribed death \u2014 even when Republicans held some power. Indeed, the electorally late (defeated for reelection) Governor Joe Lombardo of Nevada vetoed a legalization bill a few years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every one of these is ripe for legalizing assisted suicide, as that policy is now part of the liberal\/progressive issue agenda. Most have already seen serious efforts to legalize doctor-prescribed death \u2014 even when Republicans held some power. Indeed, the electorally late (defeated for reelection) Governor Joe Lombardo of Nevada <a href=\"https:\/\/nvtoday.com\/governor-vetoes-assisted-suicide-bill-in-nevada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vetoed<\/a> a legalization bill a few years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/State_government_trifectas_and_triplexes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Other states<\/a> that are already governed by a so-called Democratic trifecta, but which have not yet legalized assisted suicide, are Virginia, Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Efforts have been made to legalize assisted suicide in all of these as well, with Massachusetts voters rejecting assisted suicide in 2012 \u2014 thanks in large part to the opposition by Ted Kennedy\u2019s widow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think all of these states will see renewed legalization attempts in the next two years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/five-new-democrat-state-trifectas-assisted-suicide-here-we-come\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The other Democratic trifecta states have already legalized assisted suicide. But that is never the end of it. The first laws passed are not meant to be ceilings but launching pads. https:\/\/t.co\/w842Yov8xR<\/p>&mdash; Wesley J. Smith (@theWesleyJSmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/theWesleyJSmith\/status\/2118379869037859094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national elections, just completed, added five states that will be completely controlled by Democrats next year, i.e., legislature and governor. They are, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Every one of these is ripe for legalizing assisted suicide, as<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148552\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,209,438,168,104,114,96,151,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging-the-elderly","category-americau-s-a","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148552"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148558,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148552\/revisions\/148558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}