Patients' Rights Action Fund

06/11/2026

Several advocates participated in a!demonstration in Boston standing up for the rights of those with disabilities to not be coerced to death.

Su***de is NOT medical treatment!

06/08/2026

Our Executive Director is at the UN today, asking Canadian officials what they’ve done since UN experts concluded Canada’s Track 2 euthanasia regime violates the rights of persons with disabilities. The recommendation was clear: repeal Track 2 and come into compliance.

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...