What is Prejudice as it Relates to Disability Anti-Discrimination Law?

David Ruebain* Introduction My background and interest in disabled people’s rights stems from the fact that I was born with an impairment that affects my mobility and dexterity. Like all of us, I have a number of characteristics and identities, but overwhelmingly my identity as a disabled person has defined my relationship with the world and its relationship with me. From the anxiety and terror that my family experienced shortly before my birth upon being told by doctors that I was disabled, to my own [...] ...

The Right to Community Integration for People with Disabilities Under United States and International Law

By Eric Rosenthal and Arlene Kanter [1] Introduction In many countries of the world today, people with disabilities are deprived of their rights and liberties, excluded from society, and blamed for many of society’s most unsolvable problems, such as crime and homelessness. People with disabilities, particularly people with mental disabilities, may be involuntarily locked away in institutions, subjected to abuse and neglect, and deprived of their right to live as equal citizens in the community. [...] ...

Op-Ed: Assisted suicide would be fraught with problems and abuses

By Stephen Mendelsohn | March 6, 2015 The Public Health Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly has twice rejected doctor-prescribed suicide legislation after hearing testimony about the dangers it posed to seniors and people with disabilities. Some 140 attempts to legalize assisted suicide in other states have also been rejected. Led by a vocal disability community, opposition to assisted suicide cannot be reduced to soundbites. Death is far too important for six-word slogans like “My [...] ...

Oncology Statement on AB 374 (Berg)

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Oncology Statement on AB 374 (Berg)

Position Statement on Physician-Assisted Suicide and Opposition to AB 374 Association of Northern California Oncologists & Medical Oncology Association of Southern California April 16, 2007 The Association of Northern California Oncologists and the Medical Oncology Association of Southern California, which together represent nearly 600 oncologists in both community practice and academic medicine, oppose the legalization of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and urge Assembly Members to vote NO on [...] ...

Disability Rights Leadership Institute on Bioethics

A groundbreaking event for disability rights advocates to advance the disability rights perspective on bioethics issues:

Withholding Medical Treatment
Assisted Suicide Laws
Reproductive Technologies
[and more] … and developing our advocacy strategies on these issues

A‌‌pril 25 and 26, 2‌‌014
8‌‌:45 AM to 5‌‌:30 PM –
Participants are requested to stay
for the full two–day Institute

Crystal City Marriott, Arlington, VA
Across from Crystal City Metro
1‌‌999 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Arlington, VA 2‌‌2202.
(7‌‌03) 4‌‌13-5‌‌500

DREDF Urges CA Governor to Veto Bill Eliminating Safeguards on Physician Assisted Suicide SB 380

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September 22, 2021 Senate Bill 380, which would roll back important protections for individuals with disabilities who are considering using an aid-in-dying drug for the purpose of ending their life. Assisted suicide is not about choice when people with disabilities lack access to appropriate medical care. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed long standing disparities in our health care delivery system as we witnessed disproportionate rates of infection and mortality among Black and Latine Californians, and throughout our senior and disability communities. DREDF supports making available to all Californians ready access to timely rehabilitative, therapeutic, urgent, palliative (pain management), hospice and related health care options other than physician-assisted suicide. [...]...

Final-Montana-Disability-Brief

_____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA Case No. DA 09-0051 ROBERT BAXTER, STEVEN STOELB, STEPHEN PECKART, M.D., C. PAUL LOEHNEN, M.D., LAR AUTIO, M.D., GEORGE RISI, JR., M.D., and COMPASSION & CHOICES., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. STATE OF MONTANA and STEVE [...] ...

Hendin-Foley-Michigan-Law-Review

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Hendin-Foley-Michigan-Law-Review

HENDIN-FOLEY FINAL PRINT.DOC 5/21/2008 1:32 PM PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE IN OREGON: A MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE Herbert Hendin* Kathleen Foley** This Article examines the Oregon Death with Dignity Act from a medical perspective. Drawing on case studies and information provided by doctors, families, and other care givers, it finds that seemingly reasonable safeguards for the care and protection of terminally ill patients written into the Oregon law are being cir cumvented. [...] ...

Amicus-brief-Baxter-FROM-ITF

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA No. DA 09-0051 ROBERT BAXTER, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. STATE OF MONTANA and STEVE BULLOCK, Defendants-Appellants On Appeal from the First Judicial District Court of Lewis and Clark County BRIEF AMICUS CURIAE of INTERNATIONAL TASK FORCE ON EUTHANASIA & ASSISTED SUICIDE, HERBERT HENDIN, MD, and PROFESSOR YALE KAMISAR IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS Nickolas C. Murnion (Bar No. 1106) Nickolas C. Murnion Law Firm 417 Main Street; P.O. Box 375 Jordan, [...] ...

DREDF-AMA-Submission-7-2017

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o Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund July 17, 2017 Bette Crigger CEJA Secretary / Administrator bette.crigger@ama-assn.org Tel: 312-464-5223 Dear Ms. Crigger: The Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF), a leading national law and policy center on disability civil rights, has worked against the legalization of assisted suicide since 1999. We understand that the AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA) is meeting in November 2017 to consider physician-assisted [...] ...