…f assisted suicide bad public policy. Should the End-of-Life Options Act become law assisted suicide becomes the cheapest treatment available – an attractive option in a profit-driven healthcare system in which financial pressures already play too great a role. If insurers deny, or even merely delay, approval of expensive, life-giving treatments, patients will, in effect, be steered toward doctor-prescribed suicide. For example, patients Barbara W…
…lity rights activists in Concord, New Hampshire on Tuesday, February 4, to testify against HB 1325, an assisted suicide bill. The House Judiciary Committee will be holding a hearing on the bill at 1:30 PM, in Room 208 of the Legislative Office Building. “HB 1325 is flat out dangerous to the people of New Hampshire and the region,” said Kelly. “This bill recklessly redefines thousands of people with disabilities and chronic conditions as terminal a…
…, “No one is more enslaved than the one who thinks he is free.” You’re not free! Look at me. I did something that it should have been anybody’s right to do and I end up in prison. GOLDBLATT: Kevorkian says on reputation alone, he will collect the 3,000 signatures by mid July to be placed on the ballot as an independent in Michigan’s Ninth District. His opponents, the former Michigan lottery commissioner and Democrat Gary Peters and eight term GOP…
…sability. Blog. Kara and I, along with the Disability Activist Collective (website coming soon) are organizing a campaign against the telethon and the charity model of disability. We need bloggers (not only disability bloggers but all! feminist, queer, woc, environmentalist, activists, great time to build alliances) who will agree to write about this! The campaign will work much like a blog carnival and will be heavily publicized in listservs and…
…the Network’s compassionate guidance and support, physically and mentally competent adults in all fifty states are free to exercise their last human right — the right to a peaceful, dignified death. “Final Exit Network is the only organization in the United States that will support individuals who are not “terminally ill” – 6 months or less to live – to hasten their deaths. No other organization in the US makes this commitment,” said Goodwin. As…
