Australian man chooses assisted suicide because he cannot get disability care
The suicide lobby sells choice but doesn’t reveal the fact that, for many, there will be no choice.
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Articles tagged Disability Rights
Disability groups sue Delaware over assisted suicide law: ‘Discrimination plain and simple’
The complaint asserts that the law, instead of prioritizing suicide prevention for individuals with disabilities, effectively steers them toward suicide.
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Canadian broadcaster’s positive coverage of disability advocate’s euthanasia sends terrible message
The assisted-suicide death of an inspirational figure for the disability rights movement – and its possible impact on the expansion of euthanasia – is a tragedy.
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UK man with Down syndrome starved to death in NHS hospital highlights disabled healthcare crisis
Ableism is an ugly fact of Western healthcare, and to legalize assisted suicide in the UK would be to make the NHS even more dangerous for those with disabilities.
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Eugenics didn’t die in asylums – it lives on in abortion and euthanasia laws
Rebranded as 'reproductive rights,' eugenics shifted from state-run asylums to abortion clinics, continuing its mission to eliminate those deemed undesirable.
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Canadian euthanasia doctor gushes about how much she enjoys killing people
Dr. Ellen Wiebe rejects the case made by disability rights groups that they are vulnerable, and that social pressure and even coercion often accompanies euthanasia.
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Maryland’s latest assisted suicide bill dies in state Senate
The mostly Democrat proponents of assisted suicide in Maryland have had to overcome pro-life opposition from a core group of black Americans and the state's Catholic bishops.
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Autistic people in the Netherlands are being euthanized: report
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne, a palliative care specialist at Britain’s Kingston University, led a study in which she reviewed 900 case files from 2012-2021, and discovered 39 cases that involved autistic or intellectually disabled individuals.
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UPDATE: Local Massachusetts Democrat chair who suggested aborting disabled babies to save money resigns
Michael Hugo's apology failed to quell the backlash from disability rights advocates.
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Italian doctors perform country’s first assisted suicide on man disabled by truck accident
Now that Federico Carboni, known as 'Mario,' has died by assisted suicide, the pressure to legalize assisted suicide will intensify in Italy.
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