NDY Letter to New Mexico Attorney General Gary King Urging Appeal of Assisted Suicide Case

…tal drugs were administered by the person or their surrogate. (See https://www.kcba.org/newsevents/barbulletin/BView.aspx?Month=07&Year=2011&AID=article10.htm.) It all comes back to the conclusion I reached about the New Mexico case when I wrote about it in the Not Dead Yet blog: The New Mexico plaintiffs are all people who seem privileged enough to be justified in their confidence that the patient in this case will not be coerced into assisted su…

Testimony of Meghan Schrader

…eating disorders kill themselves with “MAiD,” (https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.pn.2022.11.9.4 , https://www.compassionandchoices.org/news/colorado-response ), but then it’s representatives say that these laws have never been abused. So, has the law been abused or not? As someone with an eating disorder who may have no choice but to seek treatment from people like the opportunist who wrote that case study in the future,…

Oppose the Legalization of Assisted Suicide!

…ouncil on Disability * National Council on Independent Living http://dredf.org/public-policy/assisted-suicide/ & http://notdeadyet.org/assisted-suicide-talking-points ¡Oposición a la legalización del suicidio asistido! ¡El suicidio asistido es mala medicina, una receta para el abuso! Los llamados salvaguardias son vanos. Demasiado peligroso: Muchas organizaciones de discapacidad y la Asociación Médica de Estados Unidos se oponen a la legalización…

NDY and Center for Disability Rights Comment Letter to New York Medicaid Opposing “Conversation Ready” Project As a Way to Save Money

…pain. [Views on End-of-Life Medical Treatments, November 21, 2013, http://www.pewforum.org/2013/11/21/views-on-end-of-life-medical-treatments/] The “Conversation Ready” project is focused on safety net providers. As such, the following Core Component is extremely deceptive and will incentivize “choosing” death over living with a disability. Identify care coordinators to work with community based and faith based partners to facilitate End of Life…