…opposed by the disability community. AFSCME has repeatedly trampled on the human and civil rights of people with disabilities and the elderly. The union has sacrificed the freedom of people with disabilities and the elderly to increase their own membership and union dues, stealing lives to line their own pockets. This must stop. ADAPT demands AFSCME immediately endorse the Community Choice Act and work with ADAPT to develop a strategy for the unio…
…tical thinking skills they pride themselves on. In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. – Thomas Szasz For over a decade, “end of life care” coalitions in all fifty states worked on many fronts, all related to this expansive use of “end of life.” As part of that advocacy, the statutory powers of guardians and conservators were expanded, even to a degree that called for intervention of the Su…
…blame where it belongs – at the feet of the ethics committee members, transhumanists and other talking heads who tried to make the issue as simple as possible for public consumption. This also doesn’t exactly enhance my expectations for the upcoming meeting. This article is far below the standards one usually expects from the Hastings Center Report, even in the “perspectives” section. Disability rights activists and advocates can deal with critici…
…on it as well as the use of contingent electric shock for the treatment of rumination as far back as the 1970s so I have to put my two cents worth on the aversives issue. Note to readers – the SIBIS was an early shock device that was much less painful than the device currently employed at the JRC. Exercising this rare opportunity to ask an “authority” on aversives a question in a public forum, I challenged Linscheid (who had talked about the impor…
…the contradiction this way: Singer has spent his career trying to lay down rules for human behavior which are divorced from emotion and intuition. His is a world that makes no provision for private aides to look after addled, dying old women. Yet he can’t help himself. “I think this has made me see how the issues of someone with these kinds of problems are really very difficult,” he said quietly. “Perhaps it is more difficult than I thought before…
