Democrats are in a position to make it easier for healthcare professionals to help people kill themselves after securing new trifectas in six states following the 2026 midterms.

In 2025, one out of 215 deaths in Hawaii was the result of ingesting lethal drugs prescribed under the state’s 2019 assisted suicide law, the National Right to Life Committee stated in a Friday press release. Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin could join Hawaii and the 13 other U.S. jurisdictions that legalized assisted suicide if newly empowered Democrats revive past efforts during the next sessions of the state legislatures they now control.

The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to Live Action, SBA Pro-Life America, Students for Life of America, and multiple other pro-life organizations for comment.

This isn’t just happening in Canada.
Assisted suicide is legal in 13 U.S. States.

— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) September 21, 2026

Arizona

Republicans controlled the Arizona House of Representatives since 1968, and the state senate since the early 1990s, PBS News reported. Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, who defeated Republican Rep. Andy Biggs, a former House Freedom Caucus chairperson, on Nov. 3, vetoed 540 bills passed by the state legislature during her first term.

Hobbs, however, may soon sign a lot more bills into law now that Democrats flipped both chambers of the state legislature, winning 20 of the state senate’s 30 seats and at least 37 of the state house’s 60 seats in the 2026 midterm elections.

HB 2569 was introduced Jan. 20 to legalize assisted suicide for terminally-ill adults in the state. While it died in committee, Democratic state representative Oscar De Los Santos — one of the its co-sponsors — became speaker-elect after the midterms.

Michigan

Democratic Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson will enter the governorship with more power than her predecessor, Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, after her party flipped the state house and held the state senate in the 2026 midterms. Democrats expanded their majority from 20 to 23 of the state senate’s 38 seats. They also netted 11 seats in the state house, securing 63 of its 110 seats.

HB 5825 and HB 5828 (the Death with Dignity Act) were introduced April 21 to legalize assisted suicide for mentally capable adults who are believed to have up to six months to live. Both bills have since been stalled in the Committee on Government Operations.

Minnesota

The Democratic governor-elect of Minnesota, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, is similarly sweeping into power after Democrats flipped the state house and held the state senate.