Contact: Deidre Hammon 775-544-9338 Legislative Committee Does An End Run Around Disability Advocates March 14, 2023 A bill to legalize medically assisted suicide is being railroaded through the Nevada legislature in a manner that appears designed to exclude the voices of people with disabilities, people put most at risk if this bill passes. The assisted suicide bill was added to today’s Senate Health and Human Services Committee hearing agenda a…
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…rogressive communities implore the members of the Judiciary Committee to take our concerns seriously. Do not echo the Public Health Committee’s laser-like focus on people’s negative experiences with religion while ignoring inconvenient but important facts. Embracing Nietzsche’s worldview is not the way to empower people with terminal illnesses. If you read it in context, it does exactly the opposite. Cathy Ludlum is a member of Second Thoughts Con…
…h drug to treat her lung cancer, but offered instead a physician-assisted drug that would cost $50. 1 In addition, populations that currently lack equal access to quality care, services or supports, and face discrimination, may be offered assisted suicide at greater rates. These disparities cannot be ignored. Studies have shown that Black people are less likely than non-hispanic whites to be referred for cardiac procedures, to receive opiate pain…
…s that the protections proponents touted as safeguards were no more than a ruse to get the original law passed. For example, the latest California annual report on the End of Life Option Act released in July 2020 reports that 10% of those requesting the lethal drugs had an “unknown” insurance coverage, and it was “unknown” whether 7% ever received information about available hospice or palliative care options. In a March 2021 New York Times interv…
