…Times, 02/24/24) Lisa Beaudoin: Opinion: The misguided rhetoric of the End-of-Life Options bill (Concord Monitor 02/12/24) Kathy Jo Ware: Promoters of physician-assisted suicide ignore ways that 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…
…angers of these bills to disabled people who require assistance to eat. Non-Discrimination in Healthcare: NDY worked with DREDF and others on communications with the federal HHS Office for Civil Rights to advocate for improved policies on non-discrimination in organ transplant eligibility, futility and suicide prevention. NDY also filed two formal public comments during the reporting period: NDY Public Comment On Federal Healthcare Interim Final R…
…h care providers don’t always discern the difference between providing “end-of-life” care and ending lives prematurely due to negative quality of life judgments about disability. We are also concerned that advance care planning programs have incorporated negative societal stereotypes about living with disability into materials that encourage people to forego life saving treatment rather than survive with a disability. There’s a right to refuse tre…
…uggle against assisted suicide, euthanasia, and other discriminatory ending-of-life practices into the new millennium. According to the Patients’ Rights Council, more than 175 assisted suicide legislative proposals in more than 35 states were defeated between 1994 and 2015; only four such laws have passed. NDY has built a network of activists throughout the country that has responded, over and over again, to educate legislators about the dangerous…
…been coordinating with disability community advocates from national and out-of-state organizations who are adding their weight to the urgent message that the NJ Senate committee must hear from the group most negatively impacted by assisted suicide legislation, people with disabilities. Their testimonies have been posted online: Cassie Cramer, Geriatric Social Worker John Kelly, New England Regional Director, Not Dead Yet Marilyn Golden, Senior Pol…
