…assisted suicide fight come to your state in full swing? NDY’s got a great online toolkit to help you sound like the policy buff you really are on this topic and help give you fodder for writing a letter to the editor the next time your hometown paper touts the proposed bill’s virtues! (Be sure to write us and tell us if your letter is published!) Coalition Support. Do you lead a nonprofit that would love to partner with NDY on activities related…
[Editor’s Note: The October 1, 2015 press release below is also available online in PDF format through PRWeb here. The friend-of-the-court brief described in the release can be read here.] Not Dead Yet and Five Other National Disability Groups File Friend of the Court Brief in New Mexico Supreme Court in Assisted Suicide Case On September 30, 2015, Not Dead Yet and five other national disability rights organizations filed a friend-of-the-court in…
[Editor’s Note: A PRWeb version of the press release below is online in pdf format here.] Not Dead Yet applauds Second Thoughts Connecticut, as disability advocates held a press conference Monday and now prepare to testify against an assisted suicide bill (HB 7015) at a Connecticut House Judiciary Committee hearing being held on Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Not Dead Yet’s New England regional director John Kelly is also submitting written testimony…
…rwise reliable relief was beyond their reach. Mr. Ellis’ full testimony is online here. Another New Jersey advocate to submit written testimony is Norman Smith, Board President of the Progressive Center for Independent Living, also representing two other organizations, Resources for Independent Living and Alliance Center for Independence. Among other things, he wrote about disturbing personal encounters with emergency room doctors that are all too…
…AG, joined by 6 other national disability rights groups, is both below and online at PRWeb. The brief itself is available as an attachment to the PRWeb release and on the NDY site under “Court Cases” here.] On August 22, 2014, Not Dead Yet submitted a Disability Rights friend-of-the-court brief in support of the New Mexico Attorney General’s appeal seeking to overturn a district court ruling that the New Mexico constitution contains a right to ass…
