
WHO WE ARE
The mission of the Alliance is to protect patients, the elderly, people
with disabilities, and others at significant risk of harms from
assisted suicide laws.
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• Work toward repeal of pro-assisted suicide laws and rulings nationwide.
• Promote measures that protect patients' right to equality in suicide prevention;
• Oppose efforts to make assisted suicide a legal medical treatment;
The Alliance is the national coordinated movement to:
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Help prevent assisted suicide in your state. Sign up today to help protect the vulnerable.
The mission of the Alliance is to protect patients, the elderly, people with disabilities, and others at significant risk of harms from assisted suicide laws.
The Alliance is the national coordinated movement to:
- Oppose efforts to make assisted suicide a legal medical treatment;
- Promote measures that protect patients’ right to equality in suicide prevention;
- Work toward repeal of pro-assisted suicide laws and rulings nationwide.
We seek to accomplish these goals through strong collaboration among diverse groups which, despite their otherwise widely differing purposes and ideologies, all oppose these dangerous laws.
ORGANIZATIONS WITH POLICIES OPPOSING ASSISTED SUICIDE
Patients diagnosed with lung cancer who opted for “medical assistance in dying” often proceeded without consultation with their radiation oncologist or medical oncologist, a researcher said. In a Canadian study of 45 individuals diagnosed with lung cancer who used medical assistance in dying (also known...
September 13, 2021
In response to an essay on the Victorian fantasy of a peaceful death, two letter writers (“Beyond the fantasy of a gentle death,” Aug. 29) called on the state Legislature to pass the proposed assisted suicide bill. Paula Bacon and Molly DeHaas Walsh describe the circumstances...
September 7, 2021
Assisted suicide is already legal in California through the so-called End-of-Life Option Act, narrowly passed by the California Legislature and signed by then-Gov. Brown in 2015. The bill was opposed by both Democrat and Republican Assembly members and Senators, but passed during a contested Special...
May 14, 2021
Assisted suicide is already legal in California through the so-called End of Life Option Act, narrowly passed by the California Legislature and signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown in 2015. The bill received opposition from both Democrat and Republican Assembly members and state senators but was...
April 22, 2021
By Sharon Quick, MD American 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...
February 24, 2021
Assisted suicide threatens the most vulnerable in society, especially people with disabilities. I have Duchenne muscular dystrophy which, until recently, has been considered a “childhood disorder” because people who were born with it typically did not survive into adulthood. Despite my diagnosis, I have been...
February 24, 2021
The Hill By: JJ Hanson, Opinion Contributor When assisted suicide becomes accepted public policy it threatens the lives of everyone, especially the poor, elderly, mentally ill, disabled, and terminally ill. Why? Well, for starters, abuse is unavoidable and doctors are fallible. Assisted suicide policy also...
September 28, 2017
For Immediate Release: September 27th, 2017 Patients Rights Action Fund Along With The National Alliance Against Legalizing Assisted Suicide Praise Introduction of Federal Legislation Opposing Legalization of Assisted Suicide “Many do not realize that people battling terminal illness, people with disabilities and others are inadvertently...
September 27, 2017
BY: Josefa Velasquez, New York Law Journal September 7, 2017 ALBANY – New York’s highest court rejected the argument Thursday that mentally competent, terminally ill patients have a constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, upholding lower court rulings. Read more.
September 25, 2017
As is always the case with the leftist radicals, they are never content with floating comfortably close to the islands of reason. No, for the bastion of conservatism is there. So, upon achieving a… Source: UCSF Medical Center Sued for Refusing to Perform Assisted Suicide...
September 20, 2017
Two bills addressing physician-assisted suicide in Massachusetts are set to testify before the state legislature Sept. 26, according to a Monday press release from the Massachusetts Alliance Against Doctor Prescribed Suicide. Source: Massachusetts legislature set to review physician-assisted suicide
September 20, 2017
There is no constitutional right to assisted suicide, so the courts keep ruling. Source: NY High Court Rejects Assisted Suicide Right | National Review
September 19, 2017
A blog about euthanasia, assisted suicide, elderly abuse, end-of-life care, palliative care. Source: Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
September 19, 2017