According to numbers crunched by The Daily Signal, America could easily see over 10,000 deaths a year if assisted suicide were legalized nationwide. Recently, the Oregon Public Health Division released numbers about assisted suicide in its state, a jurisdiction that legalized the practice in 1997 and where the numbers have steadily climbed. In 2014, 105 people used a physician to help end their life. In 2015, that number climbed to 132. While proponents of assisted suicide argue that the number of people that choose to end their life will always be low, their argument doesn’t take into account how the practice will grow when introduced to a nation of 300 million. It also doesn’t take into account the rising suicide rates among Millennials.

President of the Family Research Council Tony Perkins wrote in December that the military was studying the problem of suicide among those that wear the uniform. They learned that it wasn’t because of combat, but because “we have a societal issue here,” as one of the study’s authors put it. Meanwhile, the Left bemoans the death of approximately 30,000 people due to “gun violence” every year — a statistic inflated by counting the number of suicides by firearm. What will happen when the number of deaths in a state-sanctioned act outpaces the Left’s gun statistics? We doubt there will be any concern over the sanctity of human life.