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.
8 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.
State Status Update
We regularly update this page with the details of what is happening in the states. Click below for the current update of assisted suicide legislation in the states.
Assisted Suicide Abuses Hurt Patients: They Do Happen
Proponents of assisted suicide often declare that there have never been abuses of assisted suicide laws in the United States. This is categorically false. This resource provides examples of many abuse cases that have occurred under these coercive and deadly laws.
History of State Expansions
States abandon initial “safeguards” to expand assisted suicide laws. This resource provides an overview of the state’s las and their expansions.
Assisted Suicide Targets Individuals with Disabilities
Independent federal study finds assisted suicide laws rife with dangers to people with disabilites. (40 Minute Overview)
Assisted Suicide: The Bait & Switch
Legislators are persuaded by the bait of supposed “safeguards” for patients to enact laws to legalize assisted suicide. As has been witnessed over time, proponents then do a switch, claiming the “safeguards” they originally touted are now “barriers.”
Canada’s Rapid Descent Into The Euthanasia Abyss
In a flurry of court decisions, legislation and guidelines enacted over a short period of time, Canada has become the euthanasia capital of the world. This reality from our northern neighbors is a stark warning sign for the United States which has its own expansion efforts occurring in the various states.
Unintended Consequences
If assisted suicide is legal, lives will be lost due to mistakes, abuse, or lack of better options…
State Status Map
There is no federal law preventing assisted suicide. Thus, each state determines their own laws and regulations. Understand the status of Assisted Suicide Laws in your state.
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.
Statement on UK Assisted Suicide Bill
Statement on UK Assisted Suicide Bill Statement by the Patients’ Rights Action Fund: The slow death of the bill to allow assisted suicide in England and Wales takes into account the serious problems with institutionalizing death in place of care, and it rightfully upholds the rights of people with disabilities and mental health conditions. The House
PRAF Decries Gov. Hochul’s Decision to Sign Assisted Suicide Legislation
PRAF decries Gov. Hochul’s Decision to Sign Assisted Suicide Legislation Points to shocking Washington state video revealing the failure of so-called “protections” for vulnerable patients Statement of Matt Vallière, President and Executive Director of the Patients’ Rights Action Fund December 17, 2025 ________________________ The Patients’ Rights Action Fund, a national disability rights organization, decries Gov. Kathy
Vigils Across New York Demonstrate Opposition to Assisted Suicide
Vigils Across New York Demonstrate Opposition to Assisted Suicide With short notice, a busy holiday season, and below-freezing temperatures, nearly 350 people showed up all around New York calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to veto dangerous and discriminatory assisted suicide legislation. Passed by a narrow majority and facing strong bi-partisan opposition, the unpopular assisted suicide
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