Stephen Mendelsohn, a disability activist and advocate with Second Thoughts Connecticut, sent this long list of media and some commentary. I’m very grateful for this and this really deserves a post of its own. Everything below was compiled and written by Stephen Mendelsohn – we’re all thankful to him for all his work and his testimony (see below) at the Hearing:
CT Mirror: https://www.ctmirror.org/story/19490/end-life-bill-brings-comfort-some-fears-vulnerability-others Fair and balanced, yet the comparison Arielle Levin Becker makes between Sara Myers and Cathy Ludlum is highly revealing (note my comment below the story).
New Haven Register (my heads-up e-mailing got us this one, after an earlier story falsely claimed that HB 6645 was full of safeguards): https://nhregister.com/articles/2013/03/19/news/doc51491e71b3e4e463179788.txt HB 6645 as currently written has no waiting period and only one doctor if the “terminal illness” is deemed “sufficiently advanced,” meaning that someone can get a terminal diagnosis, pick up the lethal medication, and be dead within hours.
WTNH-TV Channel 8: https://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/politics/weighing-in-on-assisted-suicide#.UVAfWDcsDRp
CT News Junkie: https://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/ctnj.php/archives/entry/right-to-die_or_assisted_suicide/
Picture from Second Thoughts Connecticut press conference, on the website of Senator Joe Markley: https://farm9.static.flickr.com/8509/8574564003_4797be77d7_b.jpg (I am standing on the left, and next to Cathy in the second video above) (Editor – Stephen Mendelsohn on left and next to Cathy Ludlum in the second video above)
Testimony on the bill: https://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/menu/CommDocTmyBillAllComm.asp?bill=HB-06645&doc_year=2013
Video of 15-hour hearing: https://www.ctn.state.ct.us/CTNplayer.asp?odID=8816 John Kelly’s excellent testimony is at just past clip position 2:00; Professor Stephen Mikochik (must see) followed by Claude Holcomb at 5:22; Stephen Mendelsohn at roughly 11:48