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 | May 13, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Members of Human Life International (HLI) Switzerland helped to organize a pro-life conference in Zurich, Switzerland in 2012 in opposition to a meeting of euthanasia activists from around the world. “Our aim is not to disrupt their conference,” said HLI Switzerland...
by APFLI | Sep 10, 2004 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
By Dave Andrusko Although her case is drenched in arcane legal language about separation of powers and privacy, the bottom line for 40-year-old Terri Schindler-Schiavo is frightfully simple: will the seven judges of the Florida Supreme Court render a verdict that...
by APFLI | Aug 2, 2004 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
17 Disability groups back Jeb Bush on Schiavo case – insist order to terminate life is ‘not a private family matter’ A coalition of 17 national disability-rights organizations have thrown their support behind Gov. Jeb Bush in his legal battle over...
