There’s an interesting new response to Bill Peace’s essay in the Hastings Center Report in which Bill described a very disturbing late-night visit by a physician while Bill was hospitalized for care and complications relating to a stage IV skin breakdown. An excerpt has been posted as a comment on Bill’s response to invited reactions … Continue reading New Bill Peace-Related Response – ‘Who would want a child like that?’
Sorry we’re a little late with this. As most of the folks who read this blog know, last Thursday July 26 was the 22nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, or “ADA Day”. In Boston last week, the ADA shared the spotlight with our very good friend John Kelly – ally, activist, scholar and … Continue reading Boston, MA: Boston Mayor Proclaimed July 26, 2012 ‘John B. Kelly Day’
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
On July 21, the Winnipeg Free Press published an op-ed by Rhonda Wiebe (see below for brief bio). The op-ed is a response to ‘ethicist’ Arthur Schafer. The newspaper published an op-ed by him on July 19 titled “Assisted-suicide slope not so slippery.” Schafer is a poor choice to deny the existence of slippery slopes. … Continue reading NDY Board Member Rhonda Wiebe in Winnipeg Press: Expensive to Support Disabled but Suicide Kits are Cheap
As of today, Bill Peace’s essay “Comfort Care as Denial of Personhood” is online – and accompanied by three commentaries available at the Hasting Center Bioethics Blog. Here’s what we wrote before about the experience at the center of Bill’s essay: Back in 2010, our friend, colleague and ally Bill Peace, experienced a long, expensive … Continue reading Bill Peace’s Hastings Center Article (on a disturbing hospital experience) and Three Commentaries Are All Online
