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.
Assisted suicide laws send the message that under difficult circumstances, some lives are not worth living. Unfortunately, this is a message that will be heard not only by terminally ill individuals, but by all vulnerable persons who are tempted to take their own lives. Suicide......
06 September, 2019 0 Likes
In response to Assemblywoman Galef’s letter (“Support the Medical Aid in Dying Act”), we should not forget what Derek Humphry, co-founder of the Hemlock Society (now “Compassion & Choices) said in his book: “…economics, not the quest for broadened individual liberties or increased autonomy, will......
05 September, 2019 0 Likes
Opponents of assisted suicide urge lawmakers to focus on improving access to quality palliative care and assisted living for the seriously ill, not assisted dying. This is especially relevant given the last 20 years of data out of Oregon showing that the top 5......
04 September, 2019 0 Likes
Proponents often argue that assisted suicide is necessary to prevent poor death experiences. However, there’s much that can be done to improve access to hospice and improve the quality of hospice services available. Let’s improve care at the end of life, not end the patient’s......
31 August, 2019 0 LikesThe Aug. 1 law permitting terminally ill patients to end their lives was briefly put on hold during a legal skirmish in a suit brought by Yosef Glassman, a Bergen County physician. Dr. Glassman’s suit raises moral questions about how the public may be ensnared......
31 August, 2019 0 Likes
The Aug. 1 law permitting terminally ill patients to end their lives was briefly put on hold during a legal skirmish in a suit brought by Yosef Glassman, a Bergen County physician. Dr. Glassman’s suit raises moral questions about how the public may be ensnared......
30 August, 2019 0 Likes
An appeals court Tuesday overturned the restraining order that halted New Jersey’s “Aid in Dying” law, which enables terminally ill people to obtain a prescription and end their lives. Yosef Glassman, the physician in Englewood who challenged the law on religious and professional grounds,......
27 August, 2019 0 Likes
As a practicing physician for many years, I disagree with Dr. Roger Kligler’s call for legalized assisted suicide (“Why doctors support the option of medical aid in dying,” My View, July 25). I support the long-standing position of the American Medical Association that assisted suicide......
26 August, 2019 0 LikesOpponents of assisted suicide warn that assisted suicide laws will eventually be expanded in the United States as they have in European countries and in Canada. We are already seeing attempts at expansion in the United States. For example, one of the supposed safeguards in......
25 August, 2019 0 Likes
New Jersey’s top court declined to overturn a judge’s order preventing implementation of the state’s physician-assisted suicide law, instead sending the matter to the Appellate Division for a ruling on whether the measure should be struck down. The Supreme Court said in an order......
23 August, 2019 0 Likes
New Jersey’s attorney general is asking the state’s top court to quickly overturn a judge’s ruling that barred doctors from prescribing life-ending medication to terminally ill patients. The law, effective Aug. 1, was put on hold last week by a judge in Mercer County. On......
21 August, 2019 0 Likes
At the end of May, disability rights activists went to Albany to voice their opposition to the proposed assisted suicide legislation in New York. Kristen Hanson, Community Relations Advocate at the Patient’s Rights Action Fund, and Stephanie Woodward, Director of Advocacy at the Center......
20 August, 2019 0 Likes