by APFLI | May 14, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
On 23 May 14, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Not Dead Yet, and 12 other disability rights organizations filed an amicus brief in a case challenging the University of Wisconsin Hospital Center’s alleged practice of counseling families of people with developmental...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Led by Not Dead Yet, eleven national and twenty-three state and local disability organizations, as well as individuals, have sent an open letter to Respecting Choices, a prominent advance care planning program operated by Gundersen Health Systems in LaCrosse,...
by APFLI | Jul 28, 2009 | Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism, Right to Life - Archive
Scientists are stunned to discover that a ten-year-old German girl’s brain has rewired itself to allow her to see out of one eye as though she has two, even though half of her brain tissue was entirely missing from birth. In a report published this week in the...