…ave written numerous opinion pieces published in mainstream newspapers and online news outlets. Here are examples: Pam Heavens: Do not support legalizing physician-assisted suicide (Times Weekly, 10/02/24) Phil Friend (NDY UK): ‘What we want you to do is to help disabled people to thrive, not to die – so overturn assisted dying’ (Jersey Evening Post, 04/29/24) Jules Good: Disabled people need ‘supports to live, not tools to die’ (Seacoast Online,…
…wed for one TV and seven radio broadcasts. There were at least 19 print or online news articles covering NDY messaging, including in the Washington Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, Hartford Courant and National Public Radio. Systems Advocacy: NDY staff and advocates pursued several key systems advocacy policy initiatives during the reporting year, using a combination of strategies and approaches. Assisted Suicide: NDY opposed assisted suicide l…
[Editor’s Note: A PRWeb version of the press release below is online in pdf format here.] Not Dead Yet applauds Second Thoughts Connecticut, as disability advocates held a press conference Monday and now prepare to testify against an assisted suicide bill (HB 7015) at a Connecticut House Judiciary Committee hearing being held on Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Not Dead Yet’s New England regional director John Kelly is also submitting written testimony…
…assisted suicide fight come to your state in full swing? NDY’s got a great online toolkit to help you sound like the policy buff you really are on this topic and help give you fodder for writing a letter to the editor the next time your hometown paper touts the proposed bill’s virtues! (Be sure to write us and tell us if your letter is published!) Coalition Support. Do you lead a nonprofit that would love to partner with NDY on activities related…
…AG, joined by 6 other national disability rights groups, is both below and online at PRWeb. The brief itself is available as an attachment to the PRWeb release and on the NDY site under “Court Cases” here.] On August 22, 2014, Not Dead Yet submitted a Disability Rights friend-of-the-court brief in support of the New Mexico Attorney General’s appeal seeking to overturn a district court ruling that the New Mexico constitution contains a right to ass…
