…is also available here. The hearing is archived, but the total time of the online video is 15 hours, so Lindsay Baran of the National Council on Independent Living provided the following time markers for the awesome disability advocates who testified. Mollie Greenberg (NCIL): 1:43:40 Samantha Crane (ASAN & also an NDY Board Officer): 3:17:25 Lindsay Baran (NCIL): 3:21:40 Georges Aguehounde (DCCIL): 4:27:25 Anne Sommers (NDY): 6:00:50 Shira Wakschl…
…ote NO on HB 2739. [1] https://dredf.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Revised-OR-WA-Abuses.pdf [2] https://dredf.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Hendin-Foley-Michigan-Law-Review.pdf [3]http://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/PROVIDERPARTNERRESOURCES/EVALUATIONRESEARCH/DEATHWITHDIGNITYACT/Documents/year20.pdf [4] https://dredf.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Oregon-DHS.pdf [5]http://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/PROVIDERPARTNERRESOURCES/EVALUATIONRESEARCH/DEATHWITHDIGNIT…
…who will be impacted by this piece of bad social policy. Invidious quality-of-life judgments have no place in social policy. Reject this bill and the discrimination it promotes. Thank you very much. Crosby King 302 E. Joppa Rd. Apt. 1710 Towson, MD 21286 410-336-5152 Links to Sources: Associated Press, “Bend Couple Goes to Trial on Fraud Charges,” Ventura County Star, January 14, 2013 http://tinyurl.com/lwh7z4p Ira Byock, “Vermont: Testimon…
…who would be impacted by this piece of bad social policy. Invidious quality-of-life judgments have no place in social policy. Reject this bill and the discrimination it promotes. Thank you very much. Emily Titon 57 Pemberton Ave. Jamestown RI 02835 Links to Sources, listed in order cited: Victoria Reggie Kennedy, “Q2 is simplistic, wrong,” Berkshire Eagle, October 30, 2012 http://tinyurl.com/nxh8lg7 Jeanette Hall, “She pushed for legal r…
…by true believers at home. A broader agenda was revealed by Oregon law co-author Barbara Coombs Lee last fall at a Connecticut forum. As the online journal CTNewsJunkie reported, “Coombs Lee also said the [Oregon-style] legislation would exclude people with dementia and cognitive declines, since they could not make the choice for themselves. ‘It is an issue for another day but is no less compelling,’” she said. Coombs Lee is now the president of…
