Joe Biden is right – it is a big f___ deal. First, here’s what ADAPT, a national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom, has to say about the health reform … Continue reading ADAPT – and NDY – Celebrate Community First Choice Option in Health Care
Ann Neumann, writing on the Otherspoon blog, has stated in the past that she’s inclined to shy away from direct criticism of disability rights groups like NDY in the “right to die” debate, seeing it as “a trap.” Neumann found a way around the “trap” last week by quoting someone else’s work. Specifically, she quoted … Continue reading Ann Neumann and Vancouver Sun: Dissing Disability Activists’ Opposition to Legalized Euthanasia
Earlier this month, Washington State released its report on the first 10 months of its brand-new assisted suicide law. You can read a pretty typical press account at this NY Times link. However, neither the Times nor most of the media gets at some of the troubling information that emerges from this report – limited … Continue reading Bad Cripple on Washington State Death Toll (blog recommendation)
Out of all the newsweeklies on the market, Newsweek has published some of the most outrageous pieces regarding people with disabilities and euthanasia. This week’s “My Turn” column by veterinarian Karen Oberthaler isn’t the worst thing they’ve published, but it immediately brought to mind one their “classic” pieces. Oberthaler’s essay attempts to make a case … Continue reading Newsweek: Veterinarian Says We Should “Treat People Like Dogs”
I missed this when the news hit yesterday, but things aren’t looking great for the members of the Final Exit Network (FEN). Here’s the gist of the news, from the second paragraph of the story from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: An indictment returned Tuesday charges the Final Exit Network along with co-founder Thomas “Ted” Goodwin, 64, … Continue reading Georgia: Grand Jury Indicts Four Members of Final Exit Network on Multiple Counts
