On August 28, 2013, Vermont Public Radio reported that there has been a settlement in the lawsuit brought by Vermont Legal Aid against the state over its inadequate response times to reports of adult abuse (http://digital.vpr.net/post/advocates-settle-state-over-adult-abuse-cases). The settlement was based on the fact that the state has eliminated the long line of reported … [Read more...] about Adult Abuse in Vermont: Advocates Express Continued Concern Despite Settlement of Lawsuit
Disability Rights Groups' Opposition
Still Think Assisted Suicide Is No Threat to People with Disabilities? Read This.
A family in Canada has received an anonymous letter urging it to euthanize its 13 year old autistic child. Thanks to Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition for posting this one on his blog page (http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.ca/2013/08/canadian-family-sent-letter-telling.html). You can click on the letter to enlarge and read it. Proponents of … [Read more...] about Still Think Assisted Suicide Is No Threat to People with Disabilities? Read This.
Don’t Believe Legal Assisted Suicide Devalues Life with a Disability? Read this, and Watch the Video.
This woman believes she would be more valuable dead than alive, and she wants assistance in suicide. How sad, for her and for us all, that the media, rather than calling for people to support her in living until she dies naturally, seems ready to call her wished-for suicide an act of … [Read more...] about Don’t Believe Legal Assisted Suicide Devalues Life with a Disability? Read this, and Watch the Video.
Lest We Forget that Assisted Suicide, Now Legal in Vermont, is Danger Thinly Disguised as Help, Diane Coleman Reminds Us.
The article in italics below appeared in the Star-Ledger, a New Jersey newspaper and can be read online at http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2013/07/the_dangerous_help_of_assisted.html. The author, Diane Coleman is a disability rights activist. She reminds us that several people in Oregon have died more than six months after receiving a prescription for a lethal dose of … [Read more...] about Lest We Forget that Assisted Suicide, Now Legal in Vermont, is Danger Thinly Disguised as Help, Diane Coleman Reminds Us.
For those who discount the slippery slope, here’s a taste of the future for people with disabilities like those assisted suicide advocates call “undignified” and which are also costly in the same way providing good care as a person dies would be costly, but for a longer period. Vermont has taken a giant step towards that terrible future by enacting an assisted suicide law … [Read more...] about