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Diane Coleman: What the COVID Crisis Tells Us About the Dangers of Assisted Suicide

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The COVID pandemic revealed that people with disabilities have been denied treatment for the virus due to their disabilities and pervasive biases about their “quality of life”. This denial of care raises the very real issue that persons with disabilities are and will face similar discrimination under assisted suicide laws. Healthcare providers are the gatekeepers … Continue reading Diane Coleman: What the COVID Crisis Tells Us About the Dangers of Assisted Suicide →

Anita Cameron: A Renewed Call for Black Folks: Join Us!

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Some years ago, I wrote why Black folks should join the movement against physician assisted suicide. I spoke of racial disparities in healthcare, the tendency for us to be poor and our lives devalued and the efforts of Compassion and Choices to convince us that we’re being deprived of a basic right. I spoke about … Continue reading Anita Cameron: A Renewed Call for Black Folks: Join Us! →

Lisa Blumberg CT Mirror Op-Ed: Separating myth and reality in aid in dying

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Separating myth and reality in aid in dying January 20, 2021 The virus is surging and the death rate is increasing as the already overburdened health system is in crisis. Yet, there is talk of the legislature again considering a bill to permit doctors to provide lethal prescriptions to terminally ill adults requesting them. This … Continue reading Lisa Blumberg CT Mirror Op-Ed: Separating myth and reality in aid in dying →

Second Thoughts Press Release On Continuing Danger of Massachusetts Assisted Suicide Bill

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For Immediate Release:                                  June 2, 2020 Contact: John B. Kelly 617-952-3302, SecondThoughtsKelly@Gmail.com, @2ndThoughtsMA Bill Legalizing Assisted Suicide Remains Dangerous, Targets the Vulnerable Second Thoughts Massachusetts issues the following statement in opposition to the favorable report given by the state … Continue reading Second Thoughts Press Release On Continuing Danger of Massachusetts Assisted Suicide Bill →

Disability Advocates Kathy Ware, RN and John Kelly Respond to MN Access Press Article

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Access Press in Minnesota recently carried two excellent articles by disability advocates written in response to an earlier article  by Marianne Turnbull, who is seriously ill with ovarian cancer, in support of an assisted suicide bill. Kathy Ware is an RN and parent of an adult son with disabilities. Here’s an excerpt from her article: … Continue reading Disability Advocates Kathy Ware, RN and John Kelly Respond to MN Access Press Article →