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

…that might cause someone to reconsider their desire to die. As a doctor at New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has observed, assisted suicide “runs the risk of further devaluing the lives of terminally ill patients and may provide the excuse for society to abrogate its responsibility for their care.” [12] The question how to address the psychological and social needs that underlie the desire to die, however, is typically lost in a si…

Not Dead Yet and Ten National and New York State Disability Groups File Friend of the Court Brief in New York Assisted Suicide Case

…Darling 585-370-6690 bdarling@cdrnys.org Not Dead Yet and Ten National and New York State Disability Groups File Friend of the Court Brief in New York Assisted Suicide Case On January 6, Not Dead Yet and ten other national and New York state disability rights organizations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the New York Appellate Division in support of a lower court ruling dismissing a case seeking to legalize physician assisted suicide. Jo…

Peter Singer in NY Times Magazine: Disability Community Responds!

August 11, 2009activism, advocacy, media coverage, media issues, Our News & Commentary Blog, Peter Singer, policyStephen Drake

…ready long list of endorsers. August 11, 2009 Mr. Gerald Marzorati Editor, New York Times Magazine 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Re: Peter Singer “analysis” on health care rationing and people with disabilities Dear Mr. Marzorati: Was it the New York Times Magazine’s intention to assault or diminish the basic tenets of the disability community’s civil rights law virtually on the eve of its 19th anniversary? The New York Times Magazine’s dec…

Bloomberg Law – No Assisted Suicide Right, New York Court Says

…(800-372-1033) http://www.bna.com PDF version: No Assisted Suicide Right, New York Court Says TEXT version below: Assisted Suicide No Assisted Suicide Right, New York Court Says There is no fundamental constitutional right to assisted suicide, or aid-in-dying as it is known to proponents, an influential state court has said (Myers v. Schneiderman, 2017 BL 314454, N.Y., No. 77, 9/7/17). The New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest judicial b…

Press Releases

…of Appeals (May 30, 2017) MEDIA ADVISORY: Assisted Suicide To Be Argued in New York Court of Appeals (May 29, 2017) NDLA Press Release: Over 200 Disability Organizations Send Letter Opposing Congressional Health Cuts (March 10, 2017) (NDLA Site Version) Eleven Disability Organizations File Friend of the Court Brief in Appeal of New York Assisted Suicide Case (February 16, 2017) Disability Rights Organizations Statement Opposing Assisted Suicide La…