by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
NEXT week, voters in Massachusetts will decide whether to adopt an assisted-suicide law. As a good pro-choice liberal, I ought to support the effort. But as a lifelong disabled person, I cannot. There are solid arguments in favor. No one will be coerced into taking a...
by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The natural law tells us that, in the context of health care, 1) food and water are basic treatment and care, and should not be withdrawn lightly; 2) morphine must not be used aggressively to hasten death when a patient is not near the time of death; and 3) pain...
by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A Quick “Lay of the Land” At the PRC, we know many of you rely on us to keep you informed of what’s going on with the “death with dignity” movement, doctor-prescribed suicide and other patient care issues. A quick snapshot of the situation right now reveals: · A...
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 14, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Compassion & Choices (C&C), the national assisted-suicide activist group, has proposed that it join the lethal drug trade as the only US distributor of pentobarbital, the assisted-suicide drug of choice. In May, Drs. Nancy Crumpacker and Peter Reagan,...
