Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition*Massachusetts Court explains why assisted suicide should be prohibited (Link). John Kelly, Second Thoughts Disability rights leaders praised the Massachusetts court decision that there is no right to assisted suicide. The assisted suicide lobby doctors have decided to appeal the decision. The Second Thoughts Massachusetts media release stated: Second Thoughts MassachusettsContinue reading “Disability rights leaders praise Massachusetts court decision that there is no right to assisted suicide.”
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Lethal Problems with Medical Futility and Disability Bias
This article was published by Nancy Valko on January 15, 2020. Nancy Valko By Nancy Valko In 2018, Chris Dunn survived a freak diving accident that left him paralyzed, mostly blind and on a ventilator to breathe. He spent most of the next year in an ICU in rural Maine. Unable to see, eat, breatheContinue reading “Lethal Problems with Medical Futility and Disability Bias”
Disability Activist Anita Cameron To Speak At Congressional Briefing On Assisted Suicide
Link to the article published by Not Dead Yet.Bipartisan Resolution Opposing Assisted Suicide Laws Reintroduced Anita Cameron Anita Cameron, director of minority outreach for Not Dead Yet, will speak at a Congressional briefing to be held Thursday, December 12, 2019 in Room 2168 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The briefing is cosponsored by theContinue reading “Disability Activist Anita Cameron To Speak At Congressional Briefing On Assisted Suicide”
Québec man asked for euthanasia based on nursing home living conditions
Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition CHSLD Valcourt A Québec man who is scheduled to die by euthanasia on December 5, says that he asked for euthanasia, not based on his degenerative health, but due to his untenable living condition at CHSLD in Valcourt. Mélanie Noël, reporting for La Tribune on November 30, states thatContinue reading “Québec man asked for euthanasia based on nursing home living conditions”
Assisted suicide: Disability advocates worry about making it easier for physicians to help New Yorkers die
Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Many people wonder why disability advocates oppose assisted suicide. Meagan Parker, the director of advocacy for the New York association for Independent Living explains in an OP-Ed published yesterday in the New York Daily News that disability advocates worry about making it easier for physicians to cause death. Parker explains: AsContinue reading “Assisted suicide: Disability advocates worry about making it easier for physicians to help New Yorkers die”
Webinar: Disability Rights Opposition to Assisted Suicide laws.
Announcing! Webinar: Disability Rights OppositionTo Assisted Suicide Laws Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 3:00-4:30 pm Eastern Time REGISTER HERE! What Will You Gain By Attending: Familiarity with the key issues, arguments and common questions Materials that explain, detail, and document individual cases of assisted suicide problems and abuses Understanding what disability has to do with assisted suicideContinue reading “Webinar: Disability Rights Opposition to Assisted Suicide laws.”
Québec Superior Court Euthanasia Decision Ignores Disability Discrimination, Follows Medical Model
Media Release September 12, 2019 The recent decision of the Quebec Superior Court in the Truchon/Gladu case blatantly disregards the effect of disability discrimination in shaping the quality of life of the plaintiffs, said Amy Hasbrouck, director of Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet, a project of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities. “The judge’s description of theContinue reading “Québec Superior Court Euthanasia Decision Ignores Disability Discrimination, Follows Medical Model”
Euthanasia court case (Lamb case) may soon be dropped based on new interpretations of Canada’s euthanasia law.
Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Alex Schadenberg Soon after the federal government legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada under the phrase Medical Aid in Dying, the BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) launched a case on behalf of Julia Lamb, who lives with spinal muscular atrophy, to strike down the provision in the euthanasiaContinue reading “Euthanasia court case (Lamb case) may soon be dropped based on new interpretations of Canada’s euthanasia law.”
Canadian Healthcare system found it more convenient to kill a patient rather than provide home care.
Alex SchadenbergExecutive Driector, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. Sean Tagert with his son Sometimes an article builds interest. The article by Wesley Smith – Father with ALS Euthanized after being denied sufficient care in Canada, led to interviews with myself from other media. Purvash Jain from Medgazette 24 published this article Canadian Healthcare system found it more convenientContinue reading “Canadian Healthcare system found it more convenient to kill a patient rather than provide home care.”
Of Vincent Lambert and Ethical Rubicons
This article was published by National Review online on July 12, 2019. Wesley Smith By Wesley J Smith Vincent Lambert is dead. The forty-two-year-old Frenchman, who breathed his last yesterday in Reims, didn’t die by accident. It wasn’t “his time.” He died slowly, over nine days, by forced dehydration—a demise that causes radical drying ofContinue reading “Of Vincent Lambert and Ethical Rubicons”
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