Patients Rights Action Fund
Resources
Use the downloadable resources on this page to better understand the dangers of assisted suicide laws. Please help us educate others by sharing these resources with your friends, family, neighbors, and legislators.
7 Reasons to Oppose Assisted Suicide
Learn the facts and get informed on why assisted suicide legislation is so dangerous for those most vulnerable in our society.
Get the Truth
The truth about assisted suicide is not as simple as it seems. Assisted suicide is currently legal in only eight states and the District of Columbia. See our infograph.
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Assisted Suicide Targets Individuals with Disabilities
Independent federal study finds assisted suicide laws rife with dangers to people with disabilites. (40 Minute Overview)
Incremental Strategy
Proponents deliberately and steadily strip safeguards away from assisted suicide bills around the world and in the United States. These put more populations at risk in incremental stages.
Unintended Consequences
If assisted suicide is legal, lives will be lost due to mistakes, abuse, or lack of better options…
Organ Harvesting
Conjoining assisted suicide and euthanasia with organ harvesting, a concept once thought ghoulish and inconceivable, is now being painted as responsible and enlightened.
Mental health conditions are ignored.
Depressed patients get the lethal drugs.
Drug Combinations
Lethal experimental drug combinations used for assisted suicide cause complications for patients.
The Tragic Reality of Veteran Suicides in Oregon
Significantly higher than the national veteran suicide rate…
People of Color
Assisted suicide laws place people of color and people from other marginalized communities at increased risk of deadly harm due to racial disparities in healthcare.
Sharon Quick, MD: HB 1141 is dangerous public policy
By Sharon Quick, MDAmerican Academy of Medical Ethics One would think that Washington state legislators would prioritize saving lives, not making death more accessible, during a global pandemic that has already put too many people prematurely into graves. The House, however, is considering HB 1141, which would expand access to assisted suicide
DREDF and Others Press HHS OCR to Strengthen Nondiscrimination in Healthcare
Support for HHS OCR to publish “[Non-]Discrimination on the Basis of Disability in Critical Health and Human Service Programs or Activities” DREDF, with partners Not Dead Yet and the Patients Rights Action Fund, have assembled a total of 30 disability rights and racial justice organizations to support further regulatory action by the U.S.
German Doctor Arrested on Suspicion of Killing Coronavirus Patients
German police said they had opened a murder inquiry against a senior doctor in the western city of Essen over the killing of two seriously ill coronavirus patients with a lethal injection, authorities. The doctor, 44, who had been working at the University Hospital in Essen since February, is suspected of having killed two men,
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