Category Archives: Americans with Disabilities Act

Lisa Blumberg Published in Newsweek: Assisted Suicide Laws Violate the ADA

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Today’s Newsweek features a terrific opinion piece by disability advocate and attorney Lisa Blumberg! Here’s a photo, excerpt and link to the whole article: Assisted Suicide Laws Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act This summer, disability rights advocates sued California over its so-called End of Life Options Act. Under this 2016 law, assisted suicide is … Continue reading Lisa Blumberg Published in Newsweek: Assisted Suicide Laws Violate the ADA →

Assisted Suicide Laws Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act

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Assisted suicide laws violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) but not in the way that proponents probably think. Some have argued that the ADA requires active euthanasia for qualified people whose disabilities make it difficult to self-administer lethal drugs, a sort of “reasonable accommodation” theory. Some have suggested that the U.S. should adopt the … Continue reading Assisted Suicide Laws Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act →

Response: “Neurologic Diseases and MAiD” in The American Journal of Bioethics

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Jules Good writes in response to “Neurologic Diseases and MAiD: Aid-In-Dying Laws Create an Underclass of Patients Based on Disability” by Lonny Shavelson, Thaddeus M. Pope, Margaret Pabst Battin, Alicia Oulette & Benzi Kluger, published in The American Journal of Bioethics 16 August 2022: Legal assisted suicide puts disabled people in danger of being killed … Continue reading Response: “Neurologic Diseases and MAiD” in The American Journal of Bioethics →

Not Dead Yet Applauds Court Ruling In CA Euthanasia Case

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[Author’s note: Readers may wonder why it’s taken a month for me to post my response to the federal district court ruling in the Shavelson case. I was hoping to be able to post it after it appeared as an op-ed in one of the California newspaper outlets I pitch it to, but, alas, NDY’s … Continue reading Not Dead Yet Applauds Court Ruling In CA Euthanasia Case →

DREDF Issues Statement On Court Decision In California Euthanasia Case

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DREDF Applauds District Court Decision Dismissing Complaint Seeking To Eliminate Fundamental Protections in California’s End of Life Options Act DREDF applauds the June 22, 2022, decision by federal district court Judge Vince Chhabria to dismiss the complaint in Shavelson v. California Department of Health Care Services, a case that seeks to eliminate the self-administration requirement … Continue reading DREDF Issues Statement On Court Decision In California Euthanasia Case →