Category Archives: ADAPT

Would You Rather Die Than Go To A Nursing Facility? Time For the Community Integration Act!

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One of the issues that we have with The Conversation Project is that the online materials suggest that a nursing facility is the only alternative to being “independent”.  (The notion seems to be to ask, “If you had to go to a nursing facility, wouldn’t you rather have an advance directive that declines life-sustaining treatment?”) … Continue reading Would You Rather Die Than Go To A Nursing Facility? Time For the Community Integration Act! →

ADAPT Wins Meeting with Leadership Conference on Civil Rights to Address Disconnect Between Disability Rights and Broader Civil Rights Movement

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ADAPT took hundreds of disability rights advocates in Washington, D.C. this week to a surprising advocacy destination today:  the offices of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.  ADAPT asked their help to address the “disconnect” between the disability rights community and the broader civil rights movement.  We’re still awaiting the results and next steps, but … Continue reading ADAPT Wins Meeting with Leadership Conference on Civil Rights to Address Disconnect Between Disability Rights and Broader Civil Rights Movement →

RELEASE: Princeton Attorney Anne Studholme to Testify on Behalf of Disability Groups in New Jersey Assembly Hearing on Assisted Suicide

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For Immediate Release On February 7, 2013, Princeton attorney Anne Studholme will testify on behalf of two national disability rights groups in a hearing held by the New Jersey Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee on a proposed bill to legalize assisted suicide. Studholme will be representing Not Dead Yet and ADAPT, which oppose the … Continue reading RELEASE: Princeton Attorney Anne Studholme to Testify on Behalf of Disability Groups in New Jersey Assembly Hearing on Assisted Suicide →

Disability Rights Activist Pam Auer to Represent NDY at My Medicaid Matters Rally in Harrisburg, PA on Wednesday, October 17

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Disability Rights Activist Pam Auer to Represent Not Dead Yet at My Medicaid Matters Rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, October 17 On Wednesday, October 17, National ADAPT is leading a My Medicaid Matters Rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to oppose cuts to Medicaid. Disability rights activist Pam Auer will represent Not Dead Yet as one … Continue reading Disability Rights Activist Pam Auer to Represent NDY at My Medicaid Matters Rally in Harrisburg, PA on Wednesday, October 17 →

Assisted Suicide Laws Violate the ADA

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The 22nd Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) seems like the perfect opportunity to set the record straight about how theADA relates to assisted suicide. There’s a rarely articulated idea that assisted suicide is a sort of ADA“reasonable accommodation” to enable people who have serious physical impairments to have equal access to suicide.  … Continue reading Assisted Suicide Laws Violate the ADA →