…ghts, ideas and strategies from all DRLIB participants. Advocacy & Media – Marilyn Golden, Ari Ne’eman and Diane Coleman Fighting the Bioethics War – William Peace (Syracuse University Jeannette Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor), Joseph Stramondo (PhD Candidate, Michigan State University), Marcy Darnovsky (Center for Genetics and Society – CGS) Addressing Ethical Dilemmas Posed by Genetic Technologies – Ari Ne’eman and Samantha Crane Media…
…ves will be ended without their consent, through mistakes and abuse,” said Marilyn Golden, senior policy analyst with the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund. “No safeguards have ever been enacted or proposed that can prevent this outcome, which can never be undone.” Assisted suicide legislation was defeated last year in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts by a broad coalition of disability rights organizations, medical association…
…uctured with a very helpful table of contents, DREDF Senior Policy Analyst Marilyn Golden’s Why Assisted Suicide Must Not Be Legalized is excellent. 2. Educating and organizing disability opposition Similar to most members of the general public, many disability advocates have only heard the assisted suicide debate as conveyed through the lens of the media, limited by sound bites and other constraints. Disability rights leaders in each state are…
…n Golden, Senate Judiciary Committee on SB 128 (4/7/15) DREDF Testimony by Marilyn Golden, Senate Health Committee on SB 128 (3/25/15) Testimony of NDY Board Member Samantha Crane Opposing Maryland Assisted Suicide Bill HB1021 (3/6/15) Crosby King Testimony Before Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee (3/10/15) Anita Cameron Testimony Before Colorado House Committee (2/6/15) Carrie Anne Lucas Testimony at Colorado House Committee Meeting…
…the disability perspective hit the mainstream press so quickly as Marilyn Golden’s op ed in the Albuquerque Journal. In Assisted suicide full of dangers, which appeared in the Journal’s January 17th edition, Golden provided a thorough and solid explanation of the risks that legalization of assisted suicide poses to people “facing serious illness or disability.” This ruling tears away at the fabric of what those of us in the disability rights move…
