NDY Comment Supporting Proposed (& Long Overdue) Prohibition of Subminimum Wages

November 12, 2021Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, National Federation of the Blind, Our News & Commentary Blog, public comment, quality of life judgments, Section 14(c)public comment, Subminimum WageDiane Coleman

…LINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO DEC. 12. Go to www.regulations.gov.] November 12, 2021 Jeffrey A. Koses Chairperson United States AbilityOne Commission 1401 S. Clark Street, Suite 715 Arlington, VA 22202 RE: RIN 3037-AA16 Prohibition on the Payment of Subminimum Wages Under 14(c) Certificates as a Qualification for Participation as a Nonprofit Agency Under the Javits Wagner O’Day Program Dear Chairperson Koses: Not Dead Yet is a national disability righ…

Anita Cameron on The Laura Flanders Show

August 14, 2023Our News & Commentary BlogJules Good

…activities of daily living, and so they’re protected. There was a study in 2021, a Harvard study, a survey if you will, that showed that about 82% of the doctors that they surveyed felt that people with disabilities had a lower quality of life or lesser quality of life than non-disabled people. And so what happens is you combine that with the doctor’s biases, disability discrimination that happens, a doctor’s gonna be more apt to write you out or…

Stop Assisted Suicide Illinois Is a “Sassy!” Coalition Doing Great Advocacy

March 15, 2024Access Living, aid in dying, assisted suicide, end-of-life options bills, Illinois, op-ed, Our News & Commentary Blogassisted suicide, medical aid in dying, op-ed, Press conferenceDiane Coleman

…eople who have been helped to die by doctors had various disabilities; for instance, most of those using physician-assisted suicide have cancer, which is listed as a disability by the ADA. As a 67-year-old woman with a significant disability, I have been a vocal opponent of doctor-assisted suicide for decades. I cannot help but question whether the people who have been helped to end their lives, in the states where the practice is now legal, had a…

U.N. Experts Say Disability Is Not A Reason To Sanction Medically Assisted Dying

December 2, 2021ableism, aid in dying, assisted suicide, CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities, duty to die, end-of-life options bills, euthanasia, Our News & Commentary Blog, quality of life judgments, united nationsassisted suicide, CRPD, euthanasia, United NationsDiane Coleman

…reason to sanction medically assisted dying – UN experts GENEVA (25 January 2021) – UN human rights experts today expressed alarm at a growing trend to enact legislation enabling access to medically assisted dying based largely on having a disability or disabling conditions, including in old age. “We all accept that it could never be a well-reasoned decision for a person belonging to any other protected group – be it a racial minority, gender or s…

Anita Cameron’s Powerful Statement At Maryland Press Conference

February 12, 2024aid in dying, Anita Cameron, assisted suicide, health disparities, Maryland, media, Our News & Commentary Blog, TestimonyAnita Cameron, assisted suicide, medical aid in dying, Press conference, TestimonyDiane Coleman

…ve a lower quality of life, therefore leading them to devalue our lives. In 2021, Lisa Iezzoni, a professor of medicine at Harvard University, conducted a survey of 714 doctors around the country as part of a study. She found “82.4 percent reported that people with significant disability have worse quality of life than nondisabled people. Only 40.7 percent of physicians were very confident about their ability to provide the same quality of care to…