Eileen Mihich deserved better. Aging With Dignity has put out a powerful, short film that further dispels the disingenuous claims by ableist proponents of assisted suicide laws that there has never been a single instance in which safeguards have failed. To the assisted suicide proponent question: Where is the evidence of abuse, coercion and error? […]
As the Juneteenth celebrations approach, it’s important to know and understand racial disparities in healthcare, the impact it has on the Black community and why Black people, particularly disabled people, must fight against doctor assisted suicide. There is a long and shocking history of medical abuse and experiments on the Black community,[1]fueled by racism and […]
Listening to the other presenters, many of whom mentioned ableism, but most especially to the names being read – for more than an hour – during the Disability Day of Mourning, something I’ve known for years snapped into focus and demanded to be written: Ableism is Violence. The problem is Abled Chauvinism. Like men vis […]
I’ve been saying for years that the movement to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia is a loaded gun aimed directly at people with long-term disabilities (https://notdeadyet.org/2014/01/guest-blog-by-w-carol-cleigh-not-paying-attention.html). Though I usually value being proved correct, not so much in this case. But the blatant bigotry I’ve recently seen in that movement surprised even me. I attended a […]
NDY board member Bill Peace has been writing more on his blog Bad Cripple. Two of his recent posts last 2 touch directly on NDY concerns. In You Can’t do That, he describes the ways in which individuals and society focus hard on what he “can’t” do: The instant negativity attached to disability is raised […]
As many readers are probably aware, news broke last week that Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer had once again pushed the envelope on his decades-long assault on the value and lives of disabled people. In remarks broadcast live, Singer asserted that both government healthcare and private insurance can and should deny and/or limit healthcare to people […]
This op-ed was published in the Sunday, April 7 edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. It’s written by Selene dePackh, who is an artist and writer. She’s also autistic. dePakh’s op-ed describes the reality that many of us are all too aware of, but sharing it with a broad audience. For whatever reason, the online comments […]
I plan to put out a couple more posts today if my energy holds out. There is a lot happening this week. I think the first order of business is the rolling media nightmare unfolding in regard to Tomas Young. (Apologies to all about the misspelling of his name – many folks writing on the […]
Bill Peace, who writes the Bad Cripple blog and is one of our new board members at Not Dead Yet, has a new commentary out in the Bioethics Forum at the Hastings Center website. Here’s an excerpt from the article: Belgian twins, Eddie and Marc Verbessem, were euthanized by lethal injection at Brussels University Hospital […]
I apologize for being a little late getting this news out from the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN). There are two important issues affecting people with disabilities. One, as the headline of the press release states, is the violation of people’s basic rights by surgical and other modifications on people’s bodies without any judicial review. […]
