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Pandemic’s painful truth; we don’t value elders

Legalizing assisted suicide in a society with unequal access to affordable health care, let alone end of life care, creates an unintended and unspoken pressure on terminally ill patients, the elderly, and individuals with disabilities to not to be a burden that constrains freedom of choice rather than expanding it.  This is especially dangerous in

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Ventilator: A matter of life or death

As the COVID-19 pandemic hurdles us to the breaking point of our medical system in various hot spots across the country, we are being forced to face our faults and our fears in the raw. We are at a critical point in history, and how we care for vulnerable patients will be judged by generations

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Assisted suicide laws a danger to disabled

  The letter “Aid-in-dying empowers patients to make decision,” April 11, argues the availability of assisted suicide is empowering; however, assisted suicide devalues the lives of individuals with disabilities and diminishes patient choice by creating perverse incentives for insurance companies to offer a cheap death over costly treatment. The author claimed data from Oregon show

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Allocating Ventilators in Times of Crisis: A Brave New World

Opponents warn that assisted suicide laws are inherently discriminatory because they carve out a group in society whose lives are deemed “not worth living.” Consequently, instead of receiving society’s protection and suicide prevention services, these individuals are provided suicide assistance.  This is especially dangerous given our broken profit-driven healthcare system where individuals with disabilities, the

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Double Your Gift Today on #GivingTuesdayNow

  Double your Gift today!  Join us today and Give $5! Click here to see how Patients Right Action Fund is calling for the protection of all patients.  For the price of a latte you can support the fight to protect all patients during this pandemic and into the future! Click here to donate today!

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Join PRAF today for #GivingTuesdayNow

  Join the Patients Rights Action Fund Today for #GivingTuesdayNow Give $5 today on 5/5 and your gift will be matched! At a time when we are all experiencing the pandemic, generosity is what brings us all together and will get us through it. Generosity gives everyone the power to make a positive change in

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#GivingTuesdayNow is Today!

Today is #GivingTuesdayNow, a new global day of giving that unites us all through generosity. Today, we have the power to heal communities in good times and bad. A global threat like COVID-19 touches every person on the planet, and it presents an opportunity to come together as a global community. Give $5 and your

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HHS rejects disability, age-based medical rationing

  Click here to watch Roger Severino, director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights, as he joins Shannon Bream on ‘Fox News @ Night.’ “We do have these protections to make sure that illegitimate criteria, especially weighing the relative worth of one person versus another…we owe it to people…to give them clear guidelines so

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Coronavirus Strains Safety Net for People With Disabilities

Damian Gregory worries about the things that have quickly become normal to worry about in the coronavirus era: Is there Clorox at the grocery store this week? When will social distancing end? Will he and his family stay healthy until a vaccine is found? But the 46-year-old consultant and advocate, who has cerebral palsy, says

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Social Distancing May Increase Suicide Risk

(GETTY IMAGES) STRESS CAUSED BY widespread social distancing to blunt the spread of the coronavirus may be creating the unintended consequence of increasing the risk of suicide in the general population, according to new research published in JAMA Psychiatry. The study – “Suicide Mortality and Coronavirus Disease 2019 – A Perfect Storm?” – identifies a

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What Covid-19 has revealed about assisted suicide and euthanasia

There has not been, in living memory, more focus on healthcare, the vital role of doctors, the sacrifices made by nurses, and the wonderful efforts of everyone involved in the sector. Amid the coronavirus crisis, daily heroism, the scale of human loss, and the awful scenes in hospitals underline what is important – and what

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