…would be heard before the Council’s Human Services Committee on Monday, February 3rd. (h/t to Stephen Mendelsohn of Second Thoughts Connecticut for alerting us.) The disability advocates at Progress Center for Independent Living, including Evanston resident Larry Biondi, showed up to ensure that the disability opposition to the resolution was clearly heard. News coverage of the Committee meeting included a photo of Biondi making the case that assi…
…at Memorial Medical Center had been deliberately killed with overdoses of drugs after Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005. (Report with expert witnesses – pdf) The experts weren’t the only ones whose accounts weren’t heard by the grand jury: Family members of another one of the patients, Elaine Nelson, hired their own forensic expert to explore why the 90-year-old woman died. The report alarmed her son, Craig, a New Orleans lawyer. “It showed that…
…or the most comprehensive investigative reporting on the life and death of Ruben Navarro. Ruben Navarro’s “medical lynching” occurred under the heart beating cadaver donor protocols. Unlike the more common organ harvesting done when someone is declared “brain dead,” the organs are removed shortly after a person undergoes cardiac arrest. This protocol is somewhat controversial, but many thoughtful people support it as ethical if it is done properly…
…ses was reduced from two to one in Bill C-7, which received royal assent on 2021-03-17. [5] Woman with disabilities nears medically assisted death after futile bid for affordable housing, CTV News, April 30, 2022, https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-disabilities-nears-medically-assisted-death-after-futile-bid-for-affordable-housing-1.5882202 …
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