“Public Education” about PWDs hits new low with “Ransom Notes” campaign

…org/ Janette R. Vance The Family Alliance to Stop Abuse and Neglect http://www.thefamilyalliance.net/ Estee Klar-Wolfond The Autism Acceptance Project http://www.taaproject.com/ Barbara Trader, MS Executive Director TASH http://www.tash.org Jim Sinclair Autism Network International http://ani.autistics.org/ Stephen Drake Not Dead Yet http://notdeadyet.org/ Stanley Soden Director of Independent Living Services. MOCEANS Center for Independent Living…

Oregon Assisted Suicide Data Analysis 2023

…ide_Report_508.pdf [4] https://dredf.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Revised-OR-WA-Abuses.pdf [5] https://dredf.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Hendin-Foley-Michigan-Law-Review.pdf [6] https://www.oregon.gov/oha/ph/providerpartnerresources/evaluationresearch/deathwithdignityact/pages/ar-index.aspx [7] https://dredf.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Oregon-DHS.pdf [8]https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/PROVIDERPARTNERRESOURCES/EVALUATIONRESEARCH/DEATHWITHDIGN…

Lisa Blumberg: Recent Medscape Survey Indicates that Doctors are Divided on Life and Death Issues

…-perception-of-patients-with-disability/; https://consu mer.healthday.com/2-2-too-many-u-s-doctors-have-stigmas-about-patients-with-disabilities-2650155105.html https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2022-right-wrong-rpt-6015870#3 https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2022-right-wrong-rpt-6015870#6 https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2022-right-wrong-rpt-6015870#7 https://www.oregon.gov/oha/ph/ProviderPartnerResources/EvaluationResearch/DeathwithDignityAc…

NALA Facts & Findings: Assisted Suicide Laws and Ableism by Diane Coleman, J.D.

…, published articles, submitted legislative testimony, and provided the day-to-day management an organization requires. I am not saying this to be “inspirational,” but to make it clear that people like me have good lives and should not be written off. ECONOMIC PRESSURES TOWARD ASSISTED SUICIDE If anyone doubted that someone like me would qualify for assisted suicide in a state like Oregon, those doubts were laid to rest in 2017 when an Oregon offi…

Full Written Public Comment: Disability Related Concerns About POLST

…9484943 [2] National POLST Paradigm Task Force http://www.polst.org/develop-a-program/program-requirements/# Level 3: Program Requirements for Endorsed POLST Paradigm Programs [3] New Jersey and Nevada. [4] CANHR Policy Brief, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (“POLST”), Problems and Recommendations http://www.canhr.org/reports/2010/POLST_WhitePaper.pdf [5] See, e.g., www.adapt.org. [6] Delaware Health and Social Services, Division of…