Announces national web resource for reporting abuses and other problems Berkeley, CA –– The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, a leading national disability rights law and policy center based in Berkeley, California, denounces the enactment of California’s...
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Pro-euthanasia’ film “Me Before You” panned by disability rights campaigners
Editor’s note. This comes from our friends at SPUC--the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. Campaigners for the rights of disabled people are strongly criticising the new film Me Before You, branding it a "disability snuff movie" and objecting to its...
International campaign launched asking UN to protect babies with a disability from abortion
By Trudy Simpson Editor’s note. This appeared on the blog of the [British] Christian Medical Fellowship. Disability rights groups have launched a campaign asking The United Nations and other organisations to protect babies with Down syndrome from being aborted. The...
Disability rights advocate: Abandoned, neglected and brokenhearted after Canadian Assisted Death decision
Editor’s note. The following letter was composed by disability rights activist Steven Passmore. Right Honourable Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada November 17, 2015 Dear Prime Minister When I was a child my family placed me in a “home” for kids like me – I had...
Why disability rights advocates oppose assisted suicide
By Diane Coleman, President of the disability rights group - Not Dead Yet. This past Monday [May 11], the Syracuse Post Standard published an op-ed I wrote that gives a bit of the history behind the position that so many national disability groups have taken in...
Maryland Disability Rights Advocates Make Strong Showing In Hearing on Assisted Suicide Bill
Editor’s note. NRL News Today has written about Maryland’s proposed assisted suicide bill here and here. The following comes from the disability rights organization Not Dead Yet. On Tuesday, March 10, the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee conducted a...
“Second Thoughts” Disability Rights Group Opposes Assisted Suicide in Massachusetts
By Wesley J. Smith Disability rights activists are indomitable opponents of legalizing assisted suicide and an essential constituency in the diverse and broad-based coalition that opposes the death agenda. Now, a new DR organization has been founded to fight against...