In August 2024, Disability Rights New York filed a legal challenge to Nassau County’s Mask Transparency Act, a new law intended to deter hate crime by making it illegal for groups gathered in public to wear masks to hide their identity. The law allows exceptions for religious and cultural purposes and “to protect the health […]
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 […]
Aid in Dying Act offers too few protections for the disabled Melvyn R. Tanzman and Lisa Tarricone Jan. 12, 2022 As longtime disability rights advocates, we have seen our lives marginalized and devalued by the medical establishment. We agree with the principle of a right to self-determination; however, a balanced perspective of assisted-suicide legislation is […]
On November 2, Newsweek published an excellent op-ed by Matt Valliere, Executive Director of the Patients Rights Action Fund (PRAF), entitled The Brutal, Tragic, Consequences of Quality of Life Judgements. Though PRAF’s mission is focused on opposing assisted suicide laws, the op-ed does an uncommonly good job discussing other discriminatory and harmful medical practices that […]
June 11, 2021 By: Andrés J. Gallegos, Jennifer M. Sender ROBBINS, SALOMON & PATT, LTD. SEEKS JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL HICKSON, FILES WRONGFUL DEATH LAWSUIT AGAINST ST. DAVID’S SOUTH AUSTIN MEDICAL CENTER & ITS PHYSICIANS Robbins, Salomon & Patt, Ltd. (RSP) on June 10, 2021, filed a multi-count wrongful death lawsuit against St. David’s South Austin Medical Center […]
[Ed. note: We previously reported on the court case discussed in the article below here: Not Dead Yet, NMD United, et al. Sue NY Governor On Ventilator Re-Allocation Guidelines.] The Pandemic Threatened Their Ventilators. Will NY Officials Change Course Before The Next Crisis? BY CAROLINE LEWIS MAY 27, 2021 When COVID-19 struck New York last spring, […]
The Government should be helping people to live – not die through assisted suicide The Telegraph Baroness Campbell 26 May 2021 Today a Bill to legalise assisted suicide is being presented in Parliament. Such a change has been considered many times in the past but has always been rejected for the same reasons. Despite what the propaganda […]
It’s not end-of-of life care. It’s assisted suicide, and it needs to be stopped Hartford Courant, March 16, 2021 It defies imagination that Connecticut is contemplating legalizing assisted suicide when COVID-19 deaths have exceeded 500,000 nationwide. The virus has laid bare the inequities and prejudices of our health system. Low-income people and people of color […]
I was honored this week to be interviewed by Joyce Bender, President and CEO of Bender Consulting Services and an internationally respected leader in the field of disability employment. Her bio reflects some highlights of her extensive work: Joyce Bender has built her career on over 30 years of executive search experience, and has become […]
The COVID pandemic revealed that people with disabilities have been denied treatment for the virus due to their disabilities and pervasive biases about their “quality of life”. This denial of care raises the very real issue that persons with disabilities are and will face similar discrimination under assisted suicide laws. Healthcare providers are the gatekeepers […]
