IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACTS September 17, 2014 Diane Coleman 708-420-0539 … Continue reading Press Release: Disability Rights Activists to Protest International Euthanasia Group Meeting in Chicago
September 13, 2014 Board of Directors Disability Rights Legal Center 800 S. Figueroa St., Suite 1120 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Dear Board members, Disability Rights Legal Center: We understand you have hired Kathryn Tucker as the new executive director of DRLC. Many of the signatories to this letter have worked with DRLC for years, enjoyed … Continue reading Disability Rights Community Responds to the Tucker Hire
[Editor’s Note: We’ve previously reported on the New Mexico district court ruling on assisted suicide here and here, among others. The state Attorney General (AG) has appealed the ruling. NDY’s press release about our brief submitted in support of the AG, joined by 6 other national disability rights groups, is both below and online at … Continue reading Press Release: NDY & 6 Other National Disability Groups Submit Friend-of-the-Court Brief in New Mexico Assisted Suicide Appeal
[Editor’s note: In last week’s NDY blog featuring two great letters to the editor – Two Disability Advocates Respond to Two Assisted Suicide Proponents with Disabilities, I said I would post John Kelly’s article on the same subject, the role of people with disabilities in opposing legalization of assisted suicide. Here it is!] We are long-time … Continue reading John Kelly: Disability Rights Organizations Oppose Assisted Suicide
The sudden emergence of suicide prevention organizations and their representatives in the media responding to the death of Robin Williams has been mind-blowingly outrageous to me – I track the suicide coverage – assisted and non-assisted – of old, ill and disabled people regularly. It’s part of my job. A near-constant in reading and watching … Continue reading Robin Williams and the Hypocrisy of Suicide Prevention Organizations
