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Testimony Began Today in Vermont House Human Services Committee: Is Act 39 Working?

Posted in Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Disability Rights Groups' Opposition, Elder Abuse, Legislative Testimony, Uncategorized, Vermont Legislature on April 15, 2015 | Comments Off

      The following is the written testimony submitted to the House Human Services Committee, and given in person by Lynne Cleveland Vitzthum of the Vermont Center for Independent Living.  Kudos to Vitzthum for staying on message through repeated attempts by Committee Chair Anne Pugh to insist that disabled people are not vulnerable under this law. […]

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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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No Vermonter Should Be Left To Fall Through the Cracks in Act 39

Posted in Elder Abuse, Error Possibility, Slippery Slope on February 26, 2015 | Comments Off

In their work on S. 9, “An act relating to improving Vermont’s system for protecting children from abuse and neglect,” the Vermont Senate has been working hard to help develop safeguards to prevent the kinds of horrific tragedies that happened over the last year when young children fell through the cracks and died at the […]

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Why Some People’s “Peace of Mind” Does Not Justify Legal Assisted Suicide

Posted in Elder Abuse, Vermont Legislature on February 2, 2015 | Comments Off

Assisted suicide should never be legal because some families are like this one: http://medicalfutility.blogspot.com/2015/01/bad-healthcare-surrogates-kill-patient.html. Though this is not an assisted suicide case, but one of withdrawal of life support and possible killing under the guise of “comfort care”, we don’t have to imagine how a similar scenario would play out with assisted suicide. We have […]

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Calls and Emails Still Needed to NJ Senators, with a Link to an Excellent Source for Preparing for Them

Posted in Cheapness of Assisted Suicide, Chronic Diseases Rendered Terminal by Non-treatment, Elder Abuse, New Jersey, Rationing, Reasons to Oppose, Relatives Won't Know, Richard Doerflinger on January 6, 2015 | Comments Off

The NJ Senate could vote on the assisted suicide bill already passed by that state’s Assembly as early as January 13, 2015. We urge people__especially people from NJ, but anyone from any state who believes the spread of assisted suicide is dangerous public policy and a risk to everyone, everywhere__to contact each Senator, politely asking […]

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Looking Beyond Shallow “Compassion” Reveals the Real Cruelty of Legal Assisted Suicide

Posted in Depression, Devaluation of Lives with Disabilities, Disability Rights Groups' Opposition, Elder Abuse, Slippery Slope on November 1, 2014 | Comments Off

John Kelly, a disability rights activist with Second Thoughts Massachusetts, has an article in the Newark (New Jersey) Star Ledger that does a masterful job of cutting through the sentimentality and the shallow idea of compassion behind the selling of assisted suicide laws.  Sadly, some individuals have bought the idea that living until their natural […]

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Disability Rights Activist: Where Assisted Suicide is Legal, People Will Die against Their Will Through Mistakes or Abuse

Posted in Disability Rights Groups' Opposition, Elder Abuse, Rejections of Assisted Suicide in other states on October 15, 2014 | Comments Off

This article, by Marilyn Golden, Senior Policy Analyst of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, appeared on CNN October 14, 2014. Golden writes: “At less than $300, assisted suicide is, to put it bluntly, the cheapest treatment for a terminal illness. This means that in places where assisted suicide is legal, coercion is not […]

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