…his testimony (see below) at the Hearing: CT Mirror: http://www.ctmirror.org/story/19490/end-life-bill-brings-comfort-some-fears-vulnerability-others Fair and balanced, yet the comparison Arielle Levin Becker makes between Sara Myers and Cathy Ludlum is highly revealing (note my comment below the story). New Haven Register (my heads-up e-mailing got us this one, after an earlier story falsely claimed that HB 6645 was full of safeguards): http:/…
…ment, and Veterans and Federal Affairs. Ballot Question 2 on the November statewide ballot seeks to legalize assisted suicide in Massachusetts. For more information about No On Question 2 and reasons to oppose this measure go to: http://www.noonquestion2.org/index.php/about/faq ### No On Question 2 is a diverse coalition of disability rights organizations, doctors, nurses, community leaders, faith based groups and patient rights advocates. w…
…ing (ACAMAID), Aid in Dying Ethics Consultation Service https://www.acamaid.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Ethics-Consultation-Anorexia-Nervosa-9-3-21.pdf 4 Fabian Stahle, “Oregon Health Authority Reveals Hidden Problems with the Oregon Assisted Suicide Model” https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xOZfLFrvuQcazZfFudEncpzp2b18NrUo/view 5 “Diabetics Eligible for Physician Assisted Suicide Oregon, ” The Washington Times https://www.washingtontimes.com/new…
…Medical Procedures that Violate Civil Rights, at pp. 10-11. http://www.ndrn.org/images/Documents/Resources/Publications/Reports/Devaluing_People_with_Disabilities.pdf The NDRN report states that reliance on ethics committees and consultations are insufficient protections of a patient’s legal rights and that hospitals and other providers must “establish and implement due process protections to ensure the civil rights of a person with a disability a…
…give that information. Diane Coleman: Sure. Well, our website is notdeadyet.org. Just three words all together, no spaces, notdeadyet.org, and then DREDF is Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, the acronym D-R-E-D-F.org and actually, if you just go there at this point, the first thing there is the COVID, the link to their COVID resources and so, that’s the easiest way to find that. Bob Kafka: And hasn’t there been, I know – I think, four…
