Press Release: Disability Opposition to Assisted Suicide Bills Helped Secure Third Defeat In New England States This Session
…Hampshire overwhelmingly rejected an assisted suicide bill by a vote of 219-66. “It’s a clean sweep,” said John Kelly, New England regional director for Not Dead Yet and director of Second Thoughts Massachusetts. “Throughout New England, assisted suicide proponents simply had no answers to the arguments raised by disability rights advocates. When public health committee members heard from us how discriminatory and dangerous assisted suicide is, th…