Organ Donation by Death Row Inmates – Get Ready to Start Hearing More About How it’s “Good” for Everyone

March 11, 2011Art Caplan, Ben Goldhirsh, bioethics, crime and punishment, death penalty, Dylan Ratigan, Eric Meslin, good magazine, Graeme Wood, Kevorkian, media coverage, Our News & Commentary Blog, reality check, Wesley SmithStephen Drake

…his proposal getting published in the NY Times, it really wasn’t that surprising to see the idea of death row prisoners as an untapped source of organ donors being pushed in their pages. This issue resurfaces from time to time, usually around media coverage of a specific death row inmate making the request – wanting to donate organs after his or her death or a kidney while alive. But right now we might be seeing a deliberate push to popularize thi…

AMICUS BRIEF OF DISABILITY RIGHTS AMICI: NOT DEAD YET, ADAPT, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, AUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK, DISABILITY RIGHTS EDUCATION AND DEFENSE FUND, NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INDEPENDENT LIVING, AND THE UNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION

…CIATION TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF AUTHORITIES……………………………………………………………….. iii STATEMENT OF ISSUES PRESENTED………………………………………………. 1 BACKGROUND ……………………………………………………………………………… 2 SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT……………………………………………………………… 6 ARGUMENT………………………………………………………………………………….. 6 I. Standard of Review……………………………………………………………….. 6 II. Assisted Suicide Discriminates Against People with Disabilities…………. 7 A. Assisted Suicide is Part of the Long and Trag…

NDY Issues Statement Opposing the Proposed “Public Charge” Rule

November 19, 2018ableism, discrimination, Medicaid, Medicare, Our News & Commentary BlogPublic Charge ruleDiane Coleman

…ed “Public Charge” Rule[1] Not Dead Yet joins a large number of other disability, immigrant and other civil rights organizations in strongly opposing the “Public Charge” rule proposed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The proposed rule discriminates against people with disabilities, people with health problems, the old, the young and lower income persons. It ratchets up existing biases in the immigration law exponentially. The Federal…

NDY Response to NY Dept. of Health Advance Care Planning Request for Information

…art attack. She also said that many of her relatives have had basic CPR training. This is a real world story from Rochester, New York. Although it does not involve a non-hospital DNR, a subject of this request for information, it is certainly a relevant cautionary tale. It also suggests that the non-hospital DNR form should include a basic statement defining DNRs so that staff who may be tasked to explain these forms can do so correctly. DOH shoul…

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

I am writing to you in my capacity as President and CEO of Not Dead Yet, a national disability rights group that opposes legalization of assisted suicide, to urge you to appeal the Second Judicial District’s ruling in the Morris assisted suicide case. The judge admitted that the conduct involved would fall within the prohibition on assisted suicide enacted by the state legislature, and that the legislature was aware of the public debate on the is…