People with Disabilities Steered Toward Assisted Suicide + More

HIGHLIGHT PIECE OF THE WEEK:
California's Assisted Suicide Law Steers
People With Disabilities To Request Drugs

Matt Vallière, Ingrid Tischer, Brianna Hammon, John B. Kelly, and Anita Cameron were all quoted in a Daily Mail piece discussing the dangerous and discriminatory assisted suicide law in California.
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Assisted Suicide — Wrong Cure For The Wrong Diseases

"We should acknowledge that the physician-assisted suicide movement is a sign of unmet care, a need for more patient autonomy, the suffocation of patient choices and patients’ rights."

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Meghan Schrader Opinion Piece in the Houston Chronicle

At the end of a series of assisted suicide proponents, Meghan writes "With every state that adopts an assisted suicide law, we move one step closer to Canada’s world, where people with disabilities are almost incentivized to kill themselves."

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Young woman of color wearing her hair pulled back and a gray shirt, holding her hand up to her head in distress.

Patient Struggling With Mental Illness Offered Assisted Suicide in Canada

“It was pretty disheartening and made me feel helpless. I’m coming here because I’m looking for help and you’re telling me there is no help... That made me feel like my life was worthless or a problem that could be solved if I chose MAID.”

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"End Assisted Suicide" is the group of plaintiffs suing the state of California to overturn the Assisted Suicide law there. Our 501(c)(3) sister organization, the Institute for Patients' Rights, has joined this ground-breaking lawsuit as a plaintiff. Below is one of the core statements that shows why this law should be opposed.

Orange background with yellow, blue, green, and orange banners with the words, "We should not treat people with life-threatening disabilities any differently than everyone else." Words below say, "We should be protecting these individuals, supporting them with the care they need, reinforcing the value of their life, and ensuring they are not coerced into selecting physician-assisted suicide as appropriate end-of-life care."

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