Some years ago, I wrote why Black folks should join the movement against physician assisted suicide. I spoke of racial disparities in healthcare, the tendency for us to be poor and our lives devalued and the efforts of Compassion and Choices to convince us that we’re being deprived of a basic right. I spoke about … Continue reading Anita Cameron: A Renewed Call for Black Folks: Join Us!
Separating myth and reality in aid in dying January 20, 2021 The virus is surging and the death rate is increasing as the already overburdened health system is in crisis. Yet, there is talk of the legislature again considering a bill to permit doctors to provide lethal prescriptions to terminally ill adults requesting them. This … Continue reading Lisa Blumberg CT Mirror Op-Ed: Separating myth and reality in aid in dying
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Cathy Ludlum 860-649-7110 cathyludlum@cox.net Stephen Mendelsohn 860-827-8003 (best after 5:30) smendelsohn5845@att.net Second Thoughts Connecticut Website: https://sites.google.com/site/secondthoughtsconnecticut/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SecondThoughtsConnecticut Twitter: https://twitter.com/2ndThoughtsCT Assisted Suicide Is Bad Medicine. How Can Legislators Represent Us If They Cannot Talk to Us? January 11, 2021 (Manchester, CT) – People with disabilities fear for their lives during the … Continue reading Second Thoughts Connecticut Press Release: Assisted Suicide Is Bad Medicine
On November 23, 2020, Amy Hasbrouck, NDY Board Member and Director of Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet, submitted testimony to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Canadian Parliament. First, her description of TVNDY is a strong and moving introduction to the disability rights opposition to assisted suicide and euthanasia laws: Thank you for … Continue reading Amy Hasbrouck Submits Powerful Testimony To Canadian Senate Committee
Proponents of assisted suicide laws have insisted for years that assisted suicide has nothing to do with disability, when a glance at the reported “end of life concerns” in Oregon showed those concerns to be all about people’s psychological distress over the disabling aspects of their serious disease. As one example, lead Massachusetts proponent of … Continue reading John Kelly – Assisted Suicide: It’s All about Disability
