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Sep 20, 20243 min read
Demand a Veto of Delaware Death Bill
by Jacqueline Harvey Abernathy, Ph.D. — UPDATE: DELAWARE GOVERNOR HAS VETOED ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL I am overjoyed to share that the...
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Jul 3, 20236 min read
Unforgettable Hours of Love
by Grattan Brown, STD, and Susan Bane, MD — Fifty years of Roe v. Wade have turned induced abortion into a false standard of care for...
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Jun 6, 20235 min read
Euthanasia in Canada: The Shifting Language of Deception and MAiD’s Eugenicist Outcomes
by Jordan Kennedy — In 1999, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a pathologist from just outside Detroit, Michigan, rose to international fame following...
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Jun 6, 20234 min read
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
by Briana Grzybowski — Jean Dominique Bauby was at the top of his game in the mid-1990s. As editor-in-chief of Elle magazine, he was one...
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Sep 12, 20224 min read
Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying Program is Ableist, Classist, and Coercive
by Sophie Trist — A 2015 ruling by the Canadian Supreme Court in the case of Carter v. Canada paved the way for the country to legalize...
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May 28, 20225 min read
Terminal Discrimination
by Jack Champagne — In 1998, Dr. Gregor Wolbring, then Bioethics Advisor to the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD), wrote and...
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May 19, 20223 min read
Death at Your Fingertips
by Jack Champagne — Vermont has signed bill S.74, amending the law euphemistically referred to as the Patient Choice and Control at End...
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Jan 18, 20223 min read
Vulnerable Canadians Deserve Better Care, Not Death
by Katherine Noble — Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program is one of the largest state-sanctioned euthanization programs....
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Dec 25, 20218 min read
On (Ine)Quality of Life
by Kristina Artuković — People with a health condition, chronic illness or disability — even people like me, who have a child with a...
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Dec 16, 20213 min read
Assisted Suicide Capsule Receives Legal Clearance in Switzerland
by Judith Evans — Swiss advocates of assisted suicide are hailing a new invention: a 3-D printed suicide capsule known as “Sarco” — short...
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Nov 9, 20213 min read
Harmful Assisted Suicide Bill Progresses to Committee Stage After Fierce Debate in UK House of Lords
by Sophie Trist — This recent Halloween season has been an unusually scary one. There’s not much scarier for disabled and chronically ill...
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Nov 5, 20213 min read
Colombia Clinic Cancels Woman’s Legal Euthanasia
by Judith Evans — In 2018, a Colombian woman named Martha Liria Sepulveda received a frightening diagnosis: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
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Apr 11, 20213 min read
Legalized Assisted Suicide Is Deeply Harmful for People with Disabilities
by Sophie Trist — Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is deeply harmful to people with disabilities. Many “right to die” proponents scoff at...
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Feb 28, 20215 min read
Disability Day of Mourning: The Need to Mourn and Celebrate the Worth of Disabled Lives
by Sophie Trist — Every year on March 1 the Autistic Self-advocacy Network (ASAN) and other disability organizations hold vigils all...
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Nov 16, 20203 min read
Joe Biden's Choice of Eugenicist for COVID-19 Task Force Is Ableist and Anti-Life
by Sophie Trist — COVID-19 disproportionately affects the elderly and people with disabilities. A June NPR study revealed that in...
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Jun 30, 20202 min read
Michael Hickson's Life Mattered
by Herb Geraghty — Earlier this month Michael Hickson, a disabled black man, was killed in a Texas hospital when his doctors decided that...
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Mar 17, 20205 min read
Suicide Prevention for All
Assisted suicide allows physicians, health care providers, and the legal system to put their own
interests before the interests of the...
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Feb 28, 20204 min read
In Sickness and In Health: Reflections on Death, Disability, and Caregiving
Every person, no matter their level of dependency, deserves to live free from violence.
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Apr 30, 20192 min read
Hospital Threatens to Euthanize Woman Who Says “I Want to Live”
by Herb Geraghty — Catie Cassidy is a 64-year-old woman with lung cancer who needs oxygen to remain comfortable. According to the Diane...
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Apr 28, 20193 min read
Remembering Alfie Evans
by Stephanie Hauer — Alfie Evans was a two-year-old who defied medical expectations. He was born on May 9, 2016 in England. When he was...
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