Patients' Rights Action Fund

04/29/2026

"They promised us guardrails, transparency, and accountability; we’re still waiting for transparency and accountability, and the longer we wait, the more guardrails are torn down."

Accountability for abuse is anathema to state su***de protocols.

04/16/2026

If it’s easier to be approved for assisted su***de than to get help to live, something is wrong. Compassion means providing quality care and services to vulnerable patients, not giving up on people and ushering them towards death.

Canada, Europe and several U.S. states are broadening access to assisted su***de raising difficult ethical questions.

03/27/2026

"For them to have that option puts pressure on people with disabilities and makes us feel an obligation to die," says Daniese McMullin-Powell, one of the plaintiffs in the landmark case to end assisted su***de. Watch more:

New York has become the 13th state, along with Washington, D.C., to legalize medically assisted su***de. More than a dozen other states are also considering legalizing the practice, which supporters call medical aid in dying. Stephanie Sy traveled to both coasts to reexamine an issue that has divide...

03/17/2026

"If assisted dying laws are built on able-bodied people’s projections rather than disabled people’s realities, we risk giving those misperceptions the last word over life and death."

Read this powerful piece by Matthew Cavedon

I cannot count the number of times I’ve been told by people that I must have overcome so much in order to drive a minivan.

03/13/2026

Thanks to Admiral Christine at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for promoting human dignity and opposing assisted su***de and euthanasia.

You can listen or watch his interview here:

Thursday on "The Alex Marlow Show," Assistant Secretary for the Department of HHS, Admiral Brian Christine talked about euthanasia. Christine said, "I | Clips

03/12/2026

Dr. Mark Komrad was quoted in the Toronto Sun in his warning "of a spike in young people seeking medically assisted death with cases of those under 30 years old seeking MAID increasing six-fold over the last four years."

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02/06/2026

Watch our Coalitions Director, Jessica Rodgers speak on the dangers of the assisted su***de bill in New York.

The amendments Governor Kathy Hochul proposed are still insufficient to protect patients - she should still VETO this bill!

Jessica Rodgers discusses New York's Medical Aid in Dying Act, which was passed by the State legislature on Wednesday, and the Governor indicated she'll sign...

02/04/2026

Eileen's story exposes the dangerous practice of assisted su***de in the United States and beyond. Read her full story below:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/eileen-mihich-assisted-su***de/685833/

01/27/2026

Kiano's story is not the first & certainly not the last we will hear of people with disabilities being coerced to end their lives through assisted su***de.

This took place in Canada, but similar situations happen in the US. We must

Kiano Vafaeian was not terminally ill—and did not need to be to end his own life under Canada’s assisted su***de program.

01/22/2026

"Twelve states and Washington, D.C., currently allow what proponents like to call 'death with dignity.' The euphemism masks an ugly truth: What medical professionals are increasingly able to do is peddle easy, frictionless death."

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The Judeo-Christian principles on which this country was founded leave no room for ambiguity about assisted su***de.