…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…
…tter has been sent out via postal mail to Gerald Marzoratti, Editor of the New York Times Magazine. The letter conveys complaints about the content of the magazine’s recent essay, “Why Must Ration Health Care,” which offers up people with disabilities as sacrifices in the efforts to rein in health care costs. The letter was composed by NDY in collaboration with the JFA Action Network, which also worked to enlist the organizations and individuals w…
…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…
…(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…
…ving. ADAPT is strongly opposed to the legalization of assisted suicide in New York State. Though ADAPT has been fighting for the lives and liberty of disabled people for over 35 years, with more than 40 chapters throughout the United States – including four in New York State, ADAPT has most recently gained media attention this past summer for fighting to save Medicaid when over $800 billion Medicaid dollars were at risk in the many proposed bills…
