…don’t realize that 30 to 50% of those people, who were either murdered or brutalized by the police, are disabled, and we’re talking Black folks alone. 30 to 50% of the people murdered or brutalized by police, Black people, are disabled. Anita Cameron: Oftentimes, it’s not apparent disabilities, like mental health disabilities or autism or other non-apparent disabilities, diabetes, asthma, whatever, but sometimes people, you know, using mobility de…
…Death In Mass. Awakens An Old Debate (WAMC Radio, 07/06/20) Man’s coronavirus death raised questions about care for disabled, advocates say (Statesman, 07/05/20) Man’s coronavirus death raised questions about care for disabled, advocates say (The Progress News, 07/05/20) Black Disabled Man Dies From COVID-19 After Texas Hospital Refused to Treat Him (Yahoo News & msn.com, 07/01/20) Bob Kafka Interviews Diane Coleman on Barrier Free Futures (KSFR…
…ier for physicians to help New Yorkers die (New York Daily News, 10/22/19) Ruthie Poole: Should Mass. pass legislation to allow physician-assisted suicide? NO (Second article, Boston Globe, 07/12/19) Terri Hancharick: Commentary: Assisted suicide legislation endangers those with disabilities (Delaware State News, 05/14/19) Mike Reynolds: I can’t believe I’m still fighting against assisted suicide (Bangor Daily News, 04/09/19) Lisa Blumberg: Doctor…
…it will now be taken up by the Judiciary Committee. We will continue our struggle there to defeat this dangerous legislation. Joan Cavanagh Progressives Against Medical Assisted Suicide Progressives Against Medical Assisted Suicide Mission Statement Progressives Against Medical Assisted Suicide seeks to build a progressive, disability and human justice-based movement to prevent the legalization of medical assisted suicide and euthanasia and to end…
…ged and agonizing deaths. Moreover, as the Oregon Department of Health and Human Services stated: “We are not given the resources to investigate [assisted suicide cases] and not only do we not have the resources to do it, but we do not have any legal authority to insert ourselves.” The only reason more abuses have not been documented is that assisted suicide laws are designed to conceal them. Advocates claim to be about patient choice, yet there h…
