Assisted Suicide Laws Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act
Amid existing health care disparities, assisted suicide, although ostensibly voluntary, imperils the ill and disabled.
Source: newsweek.com
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Amid existing health care disparities, assisted suicide, although ostensibly voluntary, imperils the ill and disabled.
Last year, 1,270 people got fatal prescriptions under the state's End of Life Option Act, and 853 people used them to end their lives. That's a jump from 863 scripts and 522 deaths the previous year.
Attorneys representing four disability-rights organizations filed suit in Los Angeles County April 25 in an effort to overturn the state’s physician-assisted death law.