Not Dead Yet (NDY) stands in solidarity with the disability community in its rejection of the U.S Department of Justice Memo released on Thursday June 18, 2026, that seeks to unilaterally overturn nearly three decades of federal integration policy.
As NDY says tirelessly, people with disabilities want supports and services to live, not assistance to die. Where services languish or where integration isn’t even viewed as a civil right as required by federal antidiscrimination laws, people with disabilities often experience demoralization or despair. In places where assisted suicide is legal, that hopelessness can turn into embracing the suggestion or availability of assisted suicide and euthanasia. Just look at Canada.
Integration is a civil right! Our homes, not nursing homes!
An excerpt reads:
“The Department of Justice today issued a memorandum saying that federal
courts have misinterpreted the rights of individuals with disabilities to be
integrated in their communities. This deeply flawed opinion flies in the face of
long-established Supreme Court precedent, decades of well-established federal
law, and the will of Congress. Twenty-seven years ago this month, the Supreme
Court held in Olmstead v. L.C. that in enacting Title II of the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA), Congress prohibited the unnecessary isolation or
segregation of individuals with disabilities as a form of discrimination.”