EDITORIAL: Patient says insurer encouraged suicide; vote ‘no’ on Proposition 106

As Coloradans decide on a dangerous assisted-suicide proposal, a California woman provides proof of our greatest fear. She wants treatment for a deadly disease, but finds herself at the mercy of a greedy insurance company that will only pay for suicide pills under the state's new suicide law.

An out-of-state special interest, funded by billionaire George Soros, wants Colorado voters to embrace Proposition 106 as a law based in compassion. Supporters say it will reduce end-of-life suffering. Simple as that.

The law will legitimize suicide and confuse young people contemplating it as a means of escaping anxiety, pain, depression and other challenges.

It will put ill and elderly individuals under pressure to die, sparing

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