…rByMedicine. Learn more here: https://second-thoughts.org/why-massachusetts-should-reject-assisted-suicide/resources/ Tell legislators on the Health Care Financing Committee that disabled people are #NotABurden . Learn more and take action against dangerous assisted suicide laws here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dhjt4r357omrmvjji3EW_YOdbX_ELHl9/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112385030863611399223&rtpof=true&sd=true . Nothing in S1384/H2381 can stop…
…, the Post takes on the issue of “safeguards.” Noting that Quebec’s top end-of-life care regulator has decried rampant noncompliance with the rules in that province, the editorial states that although proponents may have “high confidence in the procedures they’ve developed to control psychiatric euthanasia. They need to remember that no procedural protections are perfect…Good intentions tend to have unintended consequences. In the United States, A…
Not Dead Yet files friend-of-the-court briefs in cases that relate to the organization’s goals, opposing assisted suicide and hospital futility policies, and advocating for constitutional and civil rights limits on the powers of surrogate decision makers to withhold life sustaining treatment. Amicus Brief of 12 disability organizations in Shavelson v. State of California (10/24/22) Amicus Brief of 19 Disability Rights Organizations in Dr. Roger M…
…ity rights-based opposition to assisted suicide, euthanasia, and other “end-of-life” practices that discriminate against people with disabilities which continues to this day. Ms. Hasbrouck is currently a board member of Not Dead Yet in the U.S., and Director of Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet, a project of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities to expand the reach of CCD’s ending of life ethics committee. She lives with her husband in Québec, Can…
…ll. There are just too many concerns around this related to the way our for-profit health care system works,” Thompson reiterated. The Association on Independent Living’s opposition memo to the bill states that the disability community is deeply concerned about coercion and abuse. “A.995/S.2445 does not prevent a coercive family member or caregiver from doctor shopping with the individual to find a physician who will provide the fatal drug. There…
