Stephanie Woodward’s Testimony for ADAPT Opposing NY Assisted Suicide Bills

…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 bill…

Not Dead Yet’s Op Ed articles

…y disability advocates worry about making it easier 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 (Ba…

Eleven Disability Groups File Brief in New York Assisted Suicide Case

January 6, 2016Our News & Commentary BlogDiane Coleman

…nal 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. Joining in the Not Dead Yet brief are ADAPT, the Autistic Self Advoca…

AMICUS BRIEF OF DISABILITY RIGHTS AMICI: NOT DEAD YET, ADAPT, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, AUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK, DISABILITY RIGHTS EDUCATION AND DEFENSE FUND, NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INDEPENDENT LIVING, AND THE UNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION

…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…

Press Release: Not Dead Yet and New York Disability Groups File Objections to NY Medicaid Proposal, Alleging It Would Steer People to Choose Death Over Disability to Save Health Dollars

May 30, 2014Our News & Commentary BlogDiane Coleman

…May 28, 2014, Not Dead Yet, the Center for Disability Rights and 11 other New York based disability organizations submitted public comments on the New York State Medicaid Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program (DSRIP). The comment letter called upon New York officials to eliminate one of the proposed projects, which the letter alleges would fund Medicaid providers to save money by steering people to choose death over living with disabil…