…law co-author Barbara Coombs Lee last fall at a Connecticut forum. As the online journal CTNewsJunkie reported, “Coombs Lee also said the [Oregon-style] legislation would exclude people with dementia and cognitive declines, since they could not make the choice for themselves. ‘It is an issue for another day but is no less compelling,’” she said. Coombs Lee is now the president of the group Compassion & Choices, the saccharine rebranding of the ol…
…is also available here. The hearing is archived, but the total time of the online video is 15 hours, so Lindsay Baran of the National Council on Independent Living provided the following time markers for the awesome disability advocates who testified. Mollie Greenberg (NCIL): 1:43:40 Samantha Crane (ASAN & also an NDY Board Officer): 3:17:25 Lindsay Baran (NCIL): 3:21:40 Georges Aguehounde (DCCIL): 4:27:25 Anne Sommers (NDY): 6:00:50 Shira Wakschl…
…recognition of this fact, when the New England Journal of Medicine held an online poll in 2013, its invented case was a man with metastatic pancreatic cancer, with pain well-controlled. Two thirds of respondents, by the way, opposed legalization. We disabled people have lives that frequently look like the lives of people requesting assisted suicide, but we reject as bizarre and insulting the idea that personal dignity is somehow lost through phy…
…recognition of this fact, when the New England Journal of Medicine held an online poll in 2013, its invented case was a man with metastatic pancreatic cancer, with pain well-controlled. Two thirds of respondents, by the way, opposed legalization. We, people with disabilities,have lives that frequently look like the lives of people requesting assisted suicide, but we reject as bizarre and insulting the idea that personal dignity is somehow lost t…
…recognition of this fact, when the New England Journal of Medicine held an online poll in 2013, its invented case was a man with metastatic pancreatic cancer, with pain well-controlled. Two thirds of respondents, by the way, opposed legalization. We disabled people have lives that frequently look like the lives of people requesting assisted suicide, but we reject as bizarre and insulting the idea that personal dignity is somehow lost through phy…
