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 American Medical Association recently voted to request further clarification of a report on physician-assisted suicide published by its Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. That may sound dull and procedural, but it has an unmistakable significance for the doctors’ group, which has always opposed......
16 August, 20180 LikesAssisted suicide is becoming more popular throughout the developed world. The New Zealand Parliament is currently debating its legalization. A legalization proposal in Guernsey in the United Kingdom was recently voted down, but in nearby Jersey a majority of politicians up for election support legalization.......
14 August, 20180 Likes
A disputed case of euthanasia in Belgium, involving the death of a dementia patient who never formally asked to die, has again raised concerns about weak oversight in a country with some of the world’s most liberal euthanasia laws. The case is described in......
11 August, 20180 Likes
An Ontario man suffering from an incurable neurological disease has provided CTV News with audio recordings that he says are proof that hospital staff offered him medically assisted death, despite his repeated requests to live at home. Roger Foley, 42, who earlier this year......
09 August, 20180 Likes
Deliberately taking a small child’s life is unlawful everywhere in the world, even when the child is terminally ill and asks a doctor to end his or her suffering once and for all. There is an exception to this rule: Belgium. In 2014, that......
07 August, 20180 Likes
Did you know that pain and suffering never makes the top 5 reasons why patients in Oregon request assisted suicide? Oregon Health Authority’s annual reports reveal that pain or the fear of pain is listed second to last (25%) among the reasons cited by all patients......
06 August, 20180 Likes
A man says his heart doctor in Texarkana sent him home, without any options to save his life. “Those people were going to let me die, and they knew it. They knew I wasn’t going to make it,” says Dale Fulmer, Congestive Heart Failure Patient. Dale......
03 August, 20180 Likes
Lying down on her bed, clutching her beloved toy dinosaur, Aurelia Brouwers smiled before she passed away from euthanasia. Aged just 29, the young woman was allowed to die at home in the Netherlands, surrounded by pals – despite not being terminally ill. After......
01 August, 20180 Likes
Assisted suicide is still suicide and July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. Leaders of minority communities know firsthand the difficulties residents with income challenges face in obtaining adequate health care access. With legalized assisted suicide, this unequal access turns into a matter of......
30 July, 20180 Likes
Terminal prognosis are often wrong. Individuals outlive their diagnoses by months and even years. Assisted suicide legislation leads people to give up on treatment and lose good years of their lives. Jeannette Hall is an Oregon resident who was diagnosed with cancer in 2000......
28 July, 20180 Likes
BELGIUM’S controversial euthanasia laws have seen three CHILDREN take their lives in recent years, new figures reveal. The tragic kids – all of whom are believed to have been terminally ill – are among thousands of people to have killed themselves since Belgium legalised......
26 July, 20180 Likes
There was a time — several months after J.J. Hanson was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, but several years before he died from it — when, he once said, he might have considered ending it all. The husband and father said in 2015 that the previous......
25 July, 20180 Likes