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…life sustaining treatment prior to and independent of any discussions with organ procurement organizations. Many people are quite willing to be donors should circumstances permit it, but such willingness should not be exploited to influence treatment decisions. Please work with other offices within HHS and with the DOJ to maintain an organ transplant system that all of us can trust to value our lives equally. Please contact us with any questions y…
…ding of the bill including the full list of rights can be found at https://www.guardianship.org/wp-content/uploads/NGN-Bill-of-Rights-8-10-22.pdf The significance of the model bill cannot be overestimated. If adopted in various jurisdictions, it will contribute to a paradigm shift on how persons with guardians are seen, making it clear Constitutional protections are never suspended. However, protections for people in guardianship cannot be bifurca…
…serving’ Law Raises Questions for Doctors, Stateline, May 16, 2013, http://www.pewstates.org/projects/stateline/headlines/oklahomas-life-preserving-law-raises-questions-for-doctors-85899476549 [iii] T Pope, Defending Disability Discrimination, Bioethics.net, May 31, 2013, http://www.bioethics.net/2013/05/defending-disability-discrimination/ [iv] A Ne’eman, et al., Organ Transplantation and People with I/DD: A Review of Research, Policy and Nex…
…that the number of those who die without request continues to grow (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa071143). Despite the ridiculous nature of some of their ‘choices,’ extreme danger for disabled people lies here. For now, at least, it might be somewhat difficult to talk a physician into terminal sedation of someone who is not imminently dying. That is subject to change though as medical ableism continues to grow, promoted by BDTD ideolo…
