UK: Our Time To Die? A satirical look at media coverage of assisted suicide
Originally made for the Society for Disability Studies (SDS) Conference, 2009, this film by Liz Carr and Katherine Araniello, is a satirical look at the…
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Three Strikes and You’re Dead: Canada’s Euthanasia By Advance Request Sets in Motion
By Amy Hasbrouck This article was first published by Amy Hasbrouck on her Substack (tigerlily61) HERE. The Liberal government defeated the private members bill that would have prohibited MAiD…
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Bad Cripple: William Peace on the Assisted Suicide Debate, Tom Shakespeare – and Me
Regular readers have probably come to expect periodic links to Bill Peace at his Bad Cripple Blog. His latest entry, posted on Sunday, is titled…
Video Link to July 7 Debate on Falconer Bill (Swiss Suicide Immunity)
There’s good news and bad news. I can provide the link to the debate on Lord Falconer’s bill on extending immunity to people who accompany…
UK: More on Jane Campbell – Baroness of Surbiton
I hope to get a transcript and/or link to video up later, but it turns out that Baroness Campbell of Surbiton delivered a speech during…
NY Case on Feeding Tube Withdrawal – Gary Harvey
Unfortunately, there’s an all-too-familiar scene playing that’s been playing out in Chemung County in New York. In January 2006, Gary E. Harvey had a heart…
More on Falconer Bill: Open Letter from Leaders of Disabled People’s Movement in UK and USA
Over the weekend, a letter opposing the Falconer bill was circulated among disability advocates/activists in the US and the UK. Diane Coleman and I both…
Tom Shakespeare Makes a Less Than Honest Case For Assisted Suicide
Tom Shakespeare is well-known in the disability community in the UK. In the US, it’s mostly the disability studies community that is familiar with him.…
Breaking News (UK): Falconer Swiss Suicide Tourist Immunity Voted Down!
This just in: The House of Lords has voted down the Falconer amendment to extend legal immunity from prosecution to families who take disabled and…
UK: Jane Campbell – “Assisted dying: not in our name”
The latest move by euthanasia activists in the U.K. is a proposal to extend immunity from prosecution to family members taking terminally ill or disabled…
Another child dead – authorities taking it seriously, if belatedly
Kristen LaBrie, mother of nine-year-old Jeremy Fraser, has been charged with attempted murder in connection with the child’s death in March. Kristina Chew at Change.org…