Here is a link to disability rights activist Stephen Mendelsohn’s wonderful testimony at the March 18, 2015 public hearing on the assisted suicide bill currently under consideration in the Connecticut General Assembly (HB 7015). Stephen is a leader of Second Thoughts Connecticut, a group of people with disabilities fighting the legalization of assisted suicide because […]
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Opposition to Assisted Suicide Is An Urgent Issue of Justice and Civil Rights
Posted in Ablism, Acceptance of Unintended Consequences, Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Disability Rights Groups' Opposition on March 30, 2015 | Comments Off
Accepting Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Dangerously Creates a “Special Class” of Homicide, Almost Never Investigated
Posted in Ablism, Agism, Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Elder Abuse, Never Investigated on March 8, 2015 | Comments Off
Much has been written about how legal assisted suicide and euthanasia (two sides of the same coin under our current US laws) dangerously affect the doctor-patient relationship. The article below, written for True Dignity by disability rights activist W. Carol Cleigh, explores the way legal assisted suicide dangerously affects law enforcement. Read this account of […]
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