Announcement from the Patients Rights Action Fund, Eat Breathe Thrive and the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD) Please join us for an international panel discussion on The Risks of Assisted Suicide Laws for Disability and Eating Disorders Communities to take place: THURSDAY, AUGUST 29TH 2024 | 12:00PM EST – 1:15PM EST […]
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network will lead disability organizations and advocates across the country in the thirteenth annual Disability Day of Mourning this Friday. Below is ASAN’s message about the vigils being held in memory of disabled lives lost and how you can participate. ASAN’s Message: In the past five years, over 570 people with […]
The federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing important and beneficial new regulations under Section 504 to clarify how the law prohibits healthcare discrimination based on disability. The notice of proposed regulations from the federal government is full of examples of disability discrimination by healthcare providers. For example, based on a report […]
Yesterday (Sept. 7) Delaware’s Daily State News published an opinion piece by the Chair of the State Council for Persons with Disabilities who is also the parent of a person with developmental disabilities. In the article, Terri Hancharick stated in part: Delaware’s assisted suicide bill is based on legislation in Oregon, where assisted suicide was […]
For National Virtual event 4:00 pm, go HERE. For New York virtual event: MARCH 1, 3:30pm, Register HERE. For OTHER CITIES, check HERE. People with disabilities are twice as likely as non-disabled people to be victims of violent crime. Every year, the national media covers dozens of stories about murders of people with disabilities by family members or […]
[THE COMMENT DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO DEC. 12. Go to www.regulations.gov.] November 12, 2021 Jeffrey A. Koses Chairperson United States AbilityOne Commission 1401 S. Clark Street, Suite 715 Arlington, VA 22202 RE: RIN 3037-AA16 Prohibition on the Payment of Subminimum Wages Under 14(c) Certificates as a Qualification for Participation as a Nonprofit Agency Under […]
For Immediate Release: September 2, 2021 Disability, Patients’ Rights Groups Issue Joint Statement Opposing the Expansion of Assisted Suicide in Observance of Suicide Prevention Month Berkeley, California – In observance of Suicide Prevention Month this September, disability and patients’ rights leaders from California and across the United States joined together in solidarity to voice clear, […]
On October 8, 2020, Not Dead Yet, National ADAPT, ADAPT of Texas and the Autistic Self Advocacy Network joined in a friend-of-the-court (“amicus”) brief filed by Texas attorney Michelle Hayes to support Tinslee Lewis and her mother’s case to maintain life support. The “strange bedfellows” amici groups include disability rights, religious and pro-life organizations. Tinslee […]
A month ago, we shared an announcement from the Autistic Self Advocacy Network asking people to participate in the annual Day of Mourning. On Friday, March 1st, the disability community will gather across the nation to remember these disabled victims of filicide – disabled people murdered by their family members or caregivers. In the year since […]
[From our friends at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network:] In the past five years, over 650 people with disabilities have been murdered by their parents, relatives, or caregivers. On Friday, March 1st, the disability community will gather across the nation to remember these disabled victims of filicide – disabled people murdered by their family members or […]
