The mission of the Patients' Rights Action Fund (PRAF) is to provide financial and
strategic support throughout the U.S. to protect the rights of patients and people with
disabilities by opposing doctor prescribed suicide legislation. PRAF is the national
coordinated movement to oppose efforts to make suicide a medical treatment and to
promote measures that protect patients' civil rights. We connect new and existing
grassroots organizations to build coalitions that oppose doctor prescribed suicide on
the state level. We track and follow legalization efforts across multiple states, and
provide resources to strategic opposition efforts.
We have had significant victories in the fight to protect patients, people with
disabilities and the most vulnerable from the plague of legalized assisted suicide.
Success in these battles is not possible without your support. Please consider
making a financial contribution to our cause and staying connected with us by
signing up for our email alerts. We can't do it without your help.
PRAF is only as strong as our network of supporters. Stay connected and help us fight
to protect patients' and people with disabilities' civil rights. Please sign up for our email
alerts and consider making a financial contribution to our cause. We can't do it without
your help.
The mission of the Patients' Rights Action
Fund (PRAF) is to provide financial and
strategic support throughout the U.S. to
protect the rights of patients and people
with disabilities by opposing doctor prescribed
suicide legislation. PRAF is the national
coordinated movement to oppose efforts to
make suicide a medical treatment and to
promote measures that protect patients' civil
rights. We connect new and existing
grassroots organizations to build coalitions
that oppose doctor prescribed suicide on
the state level. We track and follow legalization
efforts across multiple states, and provide
resources to strategic opposition efforts.
The movement to legalize doctor prescribed
suicide is gaining momentum, but we have
had significant victories in the fight to protect
patients, people with disabilities and the most
vulnerable. Success in these battles is not
possible without your support. Please consider
making a financial contribution to our cause
and staying connected with us by signing up
for our email alerts. We can't do it without
your help.
PRAF is only as strong as our network of
supporters. Stay connected and help us fight
to protect patients' and people with disabilities'
civil rights. Please sign up for our email alerts
and consider making a financial contribution
to our cause. We can't do it without your help.
“The purpose of the criminal law isn’t to give options and choices to some; it’s to give protection to all of us and, particularly, the most vulnerable among us.” -Robert Preston A deadly double standard features the story of Claire Freeman, who has been......
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At the state capital the debate over aid-in-dying takes center stage. Governor Andrew Cuomo is backing legislation that would allow the terminally ill to end their own lives — setting up a potentially controversial close to the legislative session… …opponents, including disability rights’ groups,......
19 April, 2019 0 Likes
The World Medical Association should uphold its ethics code and not succumb to politics Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia (PAS-E) has been a source of discussion for millennia, as evidenced by its explicit mention in the Hippocratic Oath from the fifth to third century B.C.,......
16 April, 2019 0 Likes
What are your thoughts on physician-assisted suicide? What are your thoughts on physician-assisted suicide? Posted by Fox & Friends on Monday, April 15, 2019 Kristen Hanson, Community Relations Advocate with the Patients Rights Action Fund, joins Tom Shakely, Chief Engagement Officer with Americans United for......
15 April, 2019 0 Likes
This documentary features the story of Vicki Walsh, overcoming all odds diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in 2011 and given months to live, who speaks out against the End of Life Choice Bill in ‘Terminal but not dead yet’. Also featuring Hospice palliative care......
13 April, 2019 0 Likes
Lawmakers in Oregon introduced four bills this year to expand assisted suicide, some with the goal of explicitly expanding the definition of “terminal disease,” making an ever increasing number of Oregon residents eligible for assisted suicide. “Twenty-five years after Oregon voters passed the Death with......
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…The controversial “death with dignity” bill was met with opposition Wednesday morning. A news conference led by a coalition of people against the bill was held outside the State House before a public hearing… Those who are against the bill say physician-assisted suicide is grossly......
11 April, 2019 0 Likes
In what seems like a lifetime ago, I began my activism against assisted suicide in a small dorm on the University of Maine campus in Orono, never imagining that I’d still be arguing the same points about such a flawed law that was enacted in......
10 April, 2019 0 Likes
Proponents of assisted suicide argue that 20 years of data from Oregon proves that you can place an indestructible fence of “safeguards” around assisted suicide laws that prevents against mistakes, coercion, abuse, and expansion. However, opponents of assisted suicide point to Belgium, the Netherlands,......
09 April, 2019 0 Likes
A visiting Canadian doctor claims if New Zealand introduces euthanasia, it could result in children choosing to end their own lives without their parents’ input. Canadian palliative care physician Leonie Herx is in New Zealand to take part in a debate hosted by North Shore......
07 April, 2019 0 Likes
In a 2018 report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found Nevada rates of suicide have declined between 1999 to 2016. Although there has been a decline in youth suicide, Nevada has the highest rate of elderly suicide. As Nevadans aged in 2018,......
06 April, 2019 0 Likes
Senate Bill 311, dubbed the End of Life Options Act, died in the state Senate Wednesday with a tie vote of 23-23. The House of Delegates passed the measure, 74-66, following a heated debate. The legislation had already failed several times before in the state’s......
05 April, 2019 0 Likes