The complaint asserts that the law, instead of prioritizing suicide prevention for individuals with disabilities, effectively steers them toward suicide.
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.
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.
Rebranded as 'reproductive rights,' eugenics shifted from state-run asylums to abortion clinics, continuing its mission to eliminate those deemed undesirable.
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.
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.
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.