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June 16, 2026 ~ Jeff Monosso explains the growing legal fight over Illinois controversial end-of-life law and what it means for terminally ill patients and their families.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. ~ After Illinois Gov. JB. Pritzker signed the End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act in December of 2025, which allows mentally capable adults diagnosed with a terminal illness and given six months or less to live to request medication they would self-administer to end their lives, multiple disability and patients’ rights groups, doctors, and several residents are suing the state.
The lawsuit claims that the EOLA, which is set to go into effect in September, breaks federal laws, including the Americans with Disabilities Act. A similar lawsuit also targets New York state officials.
“What they’re saying is that the plaintiffs— New York and Illinois, they create a separate and unequal system in which people with life-threatening disabilities are offered death instead of the support programs that everybody else gets,” Fox News Correspondent Monosso said on All Talk. “They say that these legal actions are about affirming that every person has value and dignity regardless of age, disability, or prognosis, and ensuring that nobody is treated as disposable under the law. That’s the language that they wrote that I’m reading verbatim.”
Illinois is only one of at least 10 states, along with Washington D.C., to permit medical aid in dying.
