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Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund Main Office: 3075 Adeline Street, Suite 210 • Berkeley, CA 94703 • 510.644.2555 • fax 510.841.8645 • www.dredf.org Government Affairs: Washington D.C. • 800.348.4232 September 22, 2021 Via Email leg.unit@gov.ca.gov The Honorable Gavin Newsom Governor of the State of California State Capitol Sacramento, CA 95814 RE: VETO Urged – SB 380 Dear Governor Newson: Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund urges your VETO on Senate Bill [...] ...

To: Wisconsin Medical Society Board of Delegates From: Disability Rights Wisconsin (DRW) Contact: Jodi Hanna, Supervising Attorney Date: April 13, 2012 Re: DRW Opposes WMS Resolution 101-2012 Physician Assisted Suicide Disability Rights Wisconsin (DRW) urges the Wisconsin Medical Society’s Board of Delegates to oppose Resolution 101- 2012 (which supports legalization of physician assisted suicide modeled after Oregon law). Physician assisted suicide laws are dangerous to people with disabilities [...] ...

LEGISLATION & PUBLIC INFORMATION UNIT 1831 K Street Sacramento, CA 95811-4114 Tel: (916) 504-5800 TTY: (800) 719-5798 Toll Free: (800) 776-5746 Fax: (916) 504-5807 www.disabilityrightsca.org May 22, 2015 Honorable William Monning California State Senate Capitol Building, Room 313 Sacramento, CA 95814 Honorable Lois Wolk California State Senate Capitol Building, Room 5114 Sacramento, CA 95814 Re: SB 128 (Wolk) – Oppose Dear Senators Monning and Wolk: Disability Rights California, a non-profit [...] ...

OPINION Guest Commentary: Legalizing assisted suicide in Colorado would threaten disabled By Carrie Ann Lucas POSTED: 01/25/2016 I am a disabled woman, a mother, an attorney and a business owner. I am a parent to four children with disabilities, two of whom are dependent on medical technology to live. I represent two organizations that exist to protect the rights and lives of disabled persons: Not Dead Yet and Disabled Parents’ Rights. I am also strongly opposed to legalizing assisted [...] ...

Testimony of Ruthie Poole, MPOWER Board President In Opposition to H 1991 “An Act affirming a terminally ill patient’s right to compassionate aid in dying” March 14, 2016 Dear Senator Lewis, Representative Hogan and Members of the Joint Committee on Public Health: My name is Ruthie Poole, and I am the president of MPOWER, a statewide membership organization made up of people with lived experience of mental health diagnosis. MPOWER opposes the legalization of assisted suicide for many reasons. [...] ...

Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund DREDF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PATIENT PROTECTION >For Medical Professionals Implementing the C alifornia EOL Option Act< HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READING Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon: A Me dical Perspective, Drs. Herbert Hendin & Kathleen Foley, Michigan Law Review, June 2008. http://dredf.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Hendin-Foley-Michigan-Law-Review.pdf, or go to http://dredf.org/public-policy/assisted-suicide/  [...] ...

In This Issue Legislative Update Volume 2, No. 1, October 31, 2008 DREDF eNews Dear Friends, Moving forward a disability rights legislative agenda In Washington has been challenging this year, but advocates have done just that and have much to celebrate including the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act, and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. In California, however, the governor vetoed over 300 bills passed with bipartisan support by  [...] ...

Insurance decisions in assisted suicide cases By Letters to the editor on April 16, 2016 at 3:15 AM A commentary by Barbara Coombs Lee, head of Compassion & Choices, put forth some confusing and misleading information about a New York assisted suicide proposal and criticized a brain cancer patient leading the fight against it (“Allow terminally ill a peaceful escape,” March 20). Under the proposal, a patient that a doctor has determined has six months or less to [...] ...

JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE Volume 7, Number 3, 2004 © Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Increased Family Reports of Pain or Distress in Dying Oregonians: 1996 to 2002 ERIK K. FROMME, M.D.,1 VIRGINIA P. TILDEN, D.N.Sc., R.N.,2* LINDA L. DRACH, M.P.H.,2** and SUSAN W. TOLLE, M.D.3 ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to compare the prevalence of family-reported pain or distress dur- ing the last week of decedents’ lives during two times: November 1996 to December 1997 and June 2000 to March 2002. [...] ...

For people with intellectual and developmental disabilities Position Statement on SB 676 / HB 1021, Death With Dignity Act The Arc Maryland will oppose SB 676/HB 1021, the Death With Dignity Act, which would legalize physician assisted suicide in Maryland. The position is taken on behalf of our concerns regarding its impact on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Arc Maryland’s concerns include lack of protections, historic discrimination in the medical field [...] ...