PIIStues

PIIStues

Disability and Health Journal 3 (2010) 31e38 www.disabilityandhealthjnl.com No, we don’t think our doctors are out to get us: Responding to the straw man distortions of disability rights arguments against assisted suicide Carol J. Gill, Ph.D. Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60608, USA The arguments that disability rights advocates present in oppositi on to legalized assisted suicide are frequently misconstrued in [...] ...

PIIStues

PIIStues

Disability and Health Journal 3 (2010) 31e38 www.disabilityandhealthjnl.com No, we don’t think our doctors are out to get us: Responding to the straw man distortions of disability rights arguments against assisted suicide Carol J. Gill, Ph.D. Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60608, USA The arguments that disability rights advocates present in oppositi on to legalized assisted suicide are frequently misconstrued in [...] ...

Materials-Bioethics-NotDeadYet

is a national, grassroots disability rights group that opposes legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia as deadly forms of discrimination. -A A +A Search … Disability Rights Toolkit for Advocacy Against Legalization of Assisted Suicide “If this bill passes, some people’s lives will be ended without their consent, through mistakes and abuse. No safeguards have ever been enacted or proposed that can prevent this out- come, which can never be undone.” – Marilyn Golden, Disability Rights [...] ...

DREDF Applauds District Court Decision Dismissing Complaint Seeking To Eliminate Fundamental Protections in California’s End of Life Options Act

June 23, 2022 DREDF applauds the June 22, 2022, decision by federal district court Judge Vince Chhabria to dismiss the complaint in Shavelson v. California Department of Health Care Services, a case that seeks to eliminate the self-administration requirement of California's End of Life Options Act (EOLA). [...]...

Where Prejudice, Disability and “Disabilism” Meet

Silvia Yee Introduction In many ways, this collection of papers on the burgeoning field of national, regional and international instruments directed towards the redress of disability discrimination is really about the existence of disability prejudice. Most of the papers focus on practical or theoretical issues raised by the laws themselves, or the jurisprudential, social and political choices that shape the drafting and enactment of laws. Nonetheless, every paper is built on the conviction that disability [...] ...

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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, [...] ...

Million Dollar Baby Built on Prejudice about People with Disabilities

The Oscar-winning movie Million Dollar Baby advances the offensive and dangerous message that death is preferable to life with a disability.

DREDF’s Statement

February 2005

The Oscar-nominated movie Million Dollar Baby advances the offensive and dangerous message that death is preferable to life with a disability. Million Dollar Baby finds itself enmeshed in controversy because of its ending, in which Frankie, a boxing trainer, accedes to the request of his protégé, Maggie, who has become quadriplegic in a ring incident, to end her life. The failure of mainstream movie critics to see serious flaws in the concluding scenes of the story, is representative of the ignorance that leads to prejudice about the lives of people with disabilities.

Perhaps the most central stereotype fueling disability prejudice is the mistaken assumption inherent in the message of the movie that the quality of life of individuals with disabilities is unquestionably not worth living. This stereotype is contradicted by the personal experience of many thousands of people with significant disabilities in this country and around the world who view our own lives as ordinary and normal. It is further contradicted by plenty of hard data. Research overwhelmingly shows that people with disabilities find satisfaction in our lives to the same degree, or greater, than does the general public.

Marilyn Golden

Marilyn Golden is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), our nation’s foremost national law and policy center on disability civil rights, with offices in Berkeley, California and Washington, D.C. She has been closely involved with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) throughout all the stages of its proposal and passage and now during its implementation. She directed the ADA Training and Information Network, a training project funded [...] ...

What You Don't Know Can Kill You

By Marilyn Golden Marilyn Golden is a Policy Analyst for the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund. (published in Sacramento, CA’s Capitol Weekly on April 26, 2007) Vermont’s House of Representatives recently defeated an assisted-suicide bill very similar to AB 374, the bill before California legislators. They didn’t vote it down because they are religious conservatives. [...] ...

My patient suicidal after watching Brittany Maynard video

Letter from Dr. Will Johnston, M.D. The letter below was sent to Massachusetts legislators: Dear Legislators: I am a doctor whose young adult patient became actively suicidal after watching a Brittany Maynard video. I urge you to vote against legalizing assisted suicide so as to not encourage other young adults to seek this path. In the first week of December 2014, a mother brought in her twenty year old son for an emergency appointment. She had told me that he had been acting oddly and talking about death. During the appointment, I [...] ...