…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…
…y injured people. 3. Email Governor Jerry Brown in Easy-to-Follow Steps Go online to the contact form. At “Purpose of communication,” click “Need Help.” At “PLEASE CHOOSE YOUR SUBJECT” click on “Legislation Issues/Concerns.” Click on the box for wanting a reply to your email. Ask Governor Brown to VETO the assisted suicide bill AB2x 15 . A few lines are plenty! Plenty of material at Second Thoughts homepage.. If you are out of state, You can say t…
…Dead Yet and Second Thoughts Massachusetts. The hearing video is available online and these testimonies begin approximately at minute markers 35 and 49. Written testimony was submitted by Not Dead Yet president and CEO Diane Coleman and Cathy Ludlum of Second Thoughts Connecticut. At the start of the hearing, Chair Joseph McNamara announced the bill would be sent to study, which he said would keep the bill alive with the possibility of being amend…
…nts the other side can’t answer! EMAIL GOV JERRY BROWN New Instructions Go online to the contact form. At “Purpose of communication,” click “Have Comment.” At “Please Choose Your Subject”, click on the down arrow at the right, and scroll all the way to the bottom. Click on the last topic. “X2AB00015\End of Life.” (It probably doesn’t matter whether you check the box for wanting a reply. We probably won’t hear anything definite until the governor’s…
…issues highlighted by that report (citations omitted but available in the online document): Kate Cheney, 85, died by assisted suicide under Oregon’s law even though she had early dementia. Her physician had declined to provide the lethal prescription. Her managed care provider then found another physician to prescribe the lethal dose. The second physician ordered a psychiatric evaluation, which found that Cheney lacked “the very high level of cap…
