Odd Andersen
A woman carries a wreath as she arrives at a ceremony to pay respect at the T4 Memorial and Information Point for the Victims of the Nazi Euthanasia Program in Berlin on Sept. 4, 2020. Administrators and doctors of the Nazi regime organized the mass murder of people with intellectual disabilities and mental illness. The annihilation of more than 70,000 patients in institutions was later named “Aktion T4” after the address of the program’s headquarters, Tiergartenstrasse 4.

Drawing on these insights, advocates for life have halted assisted suicide for nine consecutive years in Connecticut.