…, was joined by over 90 organizations, including NDY. One of the most critical parts of the statement focuses on the following language in the federal bulletin: “[P]ersons with disabilities should not be denied medical care on the basis of stereotypes, assessments of quality of life, or judgments about a person’s relative ‘worth’ based on the presence or absence of disabilities. Decisions by covered entities concerning whether an individual is a c…
…Not Dead Yet is a national disability rights organization with members in California. We are writing to oppose SB 1002. A bill that creates a dedicated, state operated phone line about California’s assisted suicide law is an unnecessary expansion that effectively promotes its usage. The push to create this phone line only serves to emphasize how impossible it is to reconcile the new law with the state’s longstanding duties to prevent suicide and…
…om NPR is below.] MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Disability groups are challenging a California law that allows terminally ill people to get drugs to end their lives. The groups say that people living with disabilities are at greater risk of being coerced into seeking those medications for assisted suicide. NPR’s Joseph Shapiro has this report. JOSEPH SHAPIRO, BYLINE: People with disabilities often have a complicated relationship with the medical system. Ma…
…il leg.unit@gov.ca.gov The Honorable Gavin Newsom Governor of the State of California State Capitol Sacramento, CA 95814 RE: Urging Veto of SB 380 Dear Governor Newsom: The purpose of this letter is to urge you to veto SB 380. If signed, SB 380 would eliminate critical protections contained in California’s End of Life Options Act or, to be more specific, its assisted suicide law. Not Dead Yet is a national disability rights group that opposes lega…
…could improve people’s lives (Minnesota Post, 02/06/24) Joan Cavanagh: Medical-assisted suicide endangers our most vulnerable (CT Mirror, 11/01/23) Lisa Blumberg: Assisted Suicide Laws Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (Newsweek, 09/11/23) Terri Hancharick: Being disabled doesn’t mean death is better than life (Delaware State News, 09/07/23) Daniese McMullin-Powell: Physician-assisted suicide discriminates against persons with disabiliti…
