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DOVIE EISNER FIGHTS FOR HIS LIFE AND OURS: 34-Year-Old Disabled New Yorker Calls on Governor Hochul to Act with Supreme Political Courage and Veto the Worst Law of its Kind.

The article linked below published on The FREEPRESS on June 15, 2025, was first published by and written for UnHerd, May 14, 2025:

 

In The FREEPRESS article linked below, Madeline Kearns, a reporter who has previously covered assisted suicide and euthanasia legislation, provides a compelling introduction to  New York’s challenging situation, and Dovie Eisner. Presently in hospital fighting for his life, the 34-year-old New Yorker who initially urged the New York Senate to reject S 138, now calls upon Governor Hochul to veto what many are calling the worst law of its kind.

In her preface, Kearns writes:

In my reporting on the subject, I have spoken to people with devastating diagnoses who long for greater agency at the end of life. I have also spoken to others with severe medical conditions who fear a world in which euthanasia is seen as a treatment option by doctors. But my thinking about this topic has been profoundly shaped by one person in particular: my friend Dovie, a 34-year-old New Yorker who lives with a life-altering, and sometimes life-threatening, condition called nemaline myopathy.”

In case you missed it, Dovie’s article below is a must-read reflection.

By Dovie Eisner

I’m a Disabled New Yorker. I Hope the Governor Vetoes Medical Aid in Dying.

‘Me Before You’ Is Not A Euthanasia Flick

Photo Credit: The Federalist.

“I was alive — thanks to the determination of law enforcers and local medical personnel to keep me that way.” – Dovie Eisner