<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/prwebFeeds.xsl"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>PRWeb.com Press Release Feed - PRWeb Press Release Account Feed</title><link>http://www.prweb.com</link><description>PRWeb.com Press Release Feed - Press Releases</description><language>en</language><managingEditor>xml@emediawire.com</managingEditor><webMaster>xml@emediawire.com</webMaster><lastBuildDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2015 06:10:53 GMT</lastBuildDate><ttl>30</ttl><item><title>Not Dead Yet and Five Other National Disability Groups File Friend of the Court Brief in New Mexico Supreme Court in Assisted Suicide Case</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/10/prweb12996107.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2015 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>On September 30, 2015, Not Dead Yet and five other national disability rights organizations filed a friend-of-the-court in the New Mexico Supreme Court in support of the State Attorney General’s request that the state’s high court uphold a Court of Appeals ruling that physician assisted suicide is not a right under the state constitution. Joining in the Not Dead Yet brief are ADAPT, Autistic Self Advocacy Network, the Disability Rights Education &amp; Defense Fund, the National Council on Independent Living and United Spinal, collectively referred to as the “Disability Amici.”</p><p>(PRWeb October 01, 2015)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/10/prweb12996107.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/10/prweb12996107.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/10/prweb12996107.htm</guid></item><item><title>Disability rights advocates are having a busy week opposing legalization of assisted suicide</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/07/prweb12840985.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2015 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Not Dead Yet leaders as well as advocates from several national and local disability rights groups are having a busy week opposing assisted suicide laws being considered by legislatures in California and the District of Columbia as well as a Tennessee court this week. Not Dead Yet board members will testify in opposition to an assisted suicide bill proposed in the District of Columbia, while Tennessee Not Dead Yet advocates will attend an assisted suicide court hearing.</p><p>(PRWeb July 10, 2015)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/07/prweb12840985.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/07/prweb12840985.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/07/prweb12840985.htm</guid></item><item><title>Disability Activists Urge Princeton University to Denounce Professor Peter Singer&#39;s Comments, Call for His Resignation</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/06/prweb12772821.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2015 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Disability rights activists from Pennsylvania Not Dead Yet and New Jersey centers for independent living, as well as groups representing parents of people with disabilities, will be marching to Princeton University and holding a protest on June 10, 2015. Activists want Princeton to publicly denounce recent statements by Professor Peter Singer, promoting ending the lives of disabled infants through denial of health care, and for Princeton to take other steps to address what the activists describe as Singer’s “hate speech” toward disabled people.</p><p>(PRWeb June 09, 2015)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/06/prweb12772821.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/06/prweb12772821.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/06/prweb12772821.htm</guid></item><item><title>Not Dead Yet Applauds Second Thoughts Connecticut As Disability Advocates Prepare to Testify Against Assisted Suicide Bill</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/03/prweb12591829.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Not Dead Yet applauds Second Thoughts Connecticut, as disability advocates held a press conference Monday and now prepare to testify against an assisted suicide bill (HB 7015) at a Connecticut House Judiciary Committee hearing being held on Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Not Dead Yet’s New England regional director John Kelly is also submitting written testimony opposed to the bill.</p><p>(PRWeb March 18, 2015)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/03/prweb12591829.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/03/prweb12591829.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/03/prweb12591829.htm</guid></item><item><title>Media Advisory: New York Disability Rights Group Opposes NY Assisted Suicide Bill</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/02/prweb12503255.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2015 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>A bill to legalize assisted suicide has been introduced in the NYS Assembly (A2129), and will reportedly be introduced in the Senate by Brad Hoylman and Diane Savino. Not Dead Yet is a national disability group based in New York which opposes assisted suicide legislation, and the group’s leaders are available for interviews.</p><p>(PRWeb February 09, 2015)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/02/prweb12503255.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/02/prweb12503255.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/02/prweb12503255.htm</guid></item><item><title>Disability Activists from Not Dead Yet and Other Colorado Organizations to Testify in Opposition to Colorado Assisted Suicide Bill</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/02/prweb12497243.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2015 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Disability rights activists from across the state will be testifying Friday before the Colorado legislature&#39;s House Committee on Public Health Care and Human Services in opposition to HB-1135, which would legalize assisted suicide in the state. The group called Not Dead Yet opposes assisted suicide as a deadly form of discrimination against old, ill and disabled people.</p><p>(PRWeb February 05, 2015)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/02/prweb12497243.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/02/prweb12497243.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/02/prweb12497243.htm</guid></item><item><title>Media Advisory: Disability Advocates Prepared To Oppose Flurry of State Assisted Suicide Bills Being Introduced in 2015</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/01/prweb12446547.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2015 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Disability rights advocates are preparing to work in broad coalition with medical and other groups that oppose legalization of assisted suicide, as proponents announce plans to introduce bills in several states in the wake of Brittany Maynard’s tragic death. Representatives of Not Dead Yet, the Disability Rights Education &amp; Defense Fund and Second Thoughts are available for interviews.</p><p>(PRWeb January 15, 2015)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/01/prweb12446547.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/01/prweb12446547.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/01/prweb12446547.htm</guid></item><item><title>Disability Rights Groups Not Dead Yet and Second Thoughts Issue Statement Defending Dr. Ira Byock in Assisted Suicide Debate</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/10/prweb12276774.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Dr. Ira Byock, one of the nation’s leading palliative care physicians and author of ‘The Best Care Possible’, has come under intense criticism lately for his opposition to legalizing assisted suicide.  Not Dead Yet and Second Thoughts, disability rights groups that oppose legalization of assisted suicide, issue the following Statement in support of Dr. Ira Byock’s role in the public policy debate spurred by the Brittany Maynard case.</p><p>(PRWeb October 24, 2014)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/10/prweb12276774.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/10/prweb12276774.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/10/prweb12276774.htm</guid></item><item><title>Disability Rights Activists to Protest International Euthanasia Group Meeting in Chicago</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/09/prweb12174468.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>The disability rights group Not Dead Yet announced today that it will lead a three-day protest vigil against the World Federation of Right to Die Societies, beginning with a rally at 511 North Columbus Drive on September 18 at noon. The American group Final Exit Network is hosting the biennial conference, which runs from September 17-20 at the Embassy Suites Chicago.</p><p>(PRWeb September 17, 2014)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/09/prweb12174468.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/09/prweb12174468.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/09/prweb12174468.htm</guid></item><item><title>Not Dead Yet and Six Other National Disability Groups Submit Friend-of-the-Court Brief in New Mexico Assisted Suicide Appeal</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/09/prweb12134471.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2014 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>On August 22, 2014, Not Dead Yet submitted a Disability Rights friend-of-the-court brief in support of the New Mexico Attorney General’s appeal seeking to overturn a district court ruling that the New Mexico constitution contains a right to assisted suicide (Morris v. King, Case No. 33,630, Court of Appeals of the State of New Mexico).  Six other national disability rights organizations joined in the brief:  ADAPT, the American Association of People with Disabilities, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, the National Council on Independent Living, and the United Spinal Association.</p><p>(PRWeb August 31, 2014)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/09/prweb12134471.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/09/prweb12134471.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/09/prweb12134471.htm</guid></item><item><title>Not Dead Yet Advocates Against Oregon-Style Assisted Suicide Bill in the UK</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/07/prweb12028864.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2014 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>As the British House of Lords prepares to hold debate on an assisted suicide bill modeled after Oregon’s law, American disability rights advocates from Not Dead Yet weigh in regarding the American experience. In an open letter to the House of Lords, John Kelly summarized arguments that helped defeat assisted suicide bills in three New England states this year.</p><p>(PRWeb July 18, 2014)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/07/prweb12028864.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/07/prweb12028864.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/07/prweb12028864.htm</guid></item><item><title>Not Dead Yet Applauds Disability Rights Advocates for Key Role in Stalling New Jersey Assisted Suicide Bill</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/06/prweb11981427.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:20:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>In a stunning defeat today for proponents of assisted suicide, the New Jersey assisted suicide bill A2270 was pulled from the floor and tabled until September for lack of votes.  Not Dead Yet applauded New Jersey disability advocates as press reports credited disability rights opposition for the defeat.</p><p>(PRWeb June 27, 2014)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/06/prweb11981427.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/06/prweb11981427.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/06/prweb11981427.htm</guid></item><item><title>Disability Advocates From Not Dead Yet and New Jersey Disability Organizations Testify Against Assisted Suicide Bill Despite Short Notice of Committee Hearing</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/06/prweb11917687.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Disability advocates From Not Dead Yet and several New Jersey disability organizations will testify against an assisted suicide bill on Thursday, June 5 before the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee.  Not Dead Yet&#39;s Princeton educated attorney Anne Studholme will testify in person, and New England regional Director John Kelly will testify by phone.</p><p>(PRWeb June 05, 2014)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/06/prweb11917687.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/06/prweb11917687.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/06/prweb11917687.htm</guid></item><item><title>Not Dead Yet and New York Disability Groups File Objections to NY Medicaid Proposal, Alleging It Would Steer People to Choose Death Over Disability to Save Health Dollars</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/05/prweb11898872.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>On May 28, 2014, Not Dead Yet, the Center for Disability Rights and 11 other New York based disability organizations submitted public comments on the New York State Medicaid Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program (DSRIP).  The comment letter called upon New York officials to eliminate one of the proposed projects, which the letter alleges would fund Medicaid providers to save money by steering people to choose death over living with disability.</p><p>(PRWeb May 30, 2014)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/05/prweb11898872.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/05/prweb11898872.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/05/prweb11898872.htm</guid></item><item><title>Not Dead Yet, Autistic Self Advocacy Network and 12 Other Disability Groups File Friend-of-Court Brief in Wisconsin Case Alleging Medical Care Withheld Due to Disability</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/05/prweb11884884.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>On Friday May 23, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Not Dead Yet and twelve other disability rights organizations filed an amicus brief in a case challenging the University of Wisconsin Hospital Center’s alleged practice of counseling families of people with developmental disabilities to withhold care for treatable but potentially life-threatening medical conditions, such as pneumonia. (Disability Rights Wisconsin v. University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, et al., Case No. 2014 AP 135, Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District IV.)</p><p>(PRWeb May 27, 2014)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/05/prweb11884884.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/05/prweb11884884.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/05/prweb11884884.htm</guid></item><item><title>Disability Opposition to Assisted Suicide Bills Helped Secure Third Defeat in New England States This Session</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11717655.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2014 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Disability advocates from Second Thoughts Connecticut and national Not Dead Yet celebrated Friday as the Connecticut legislature rejected assisted suicide legislation, when a bill to legalize assisted suicide bill died in the Public Health Committee.  A week earlier, a similar bill died in the Massachusetts Joint Committee On Public Health and, earlier this spring, New Hampshire overwhelmingly rejected an assisted suicide bill by a vote of 219-66.</p><p>(PRWeb March 31, 2014)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11717655.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11717655.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11717655.htm</guid></item><item><title>Disability Activists from Not Dead Yet and Second Thoughts to Testify in Opposition to Connecticut Assisted Suicide Bill</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11674395.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>John Kelly, Not Dead Yet’s regional director for the New England states, and disability activists from Second Thoughts Connecticut will be testifying today in Hartford against an assisted suicide bill, HB 5326.  Modeled after the Massachusetts group of the same name, which was instrumental in defeating an assisted suicide ballot referendum in that state in 2012, the group says that a closer look at the details of assisted suicide proposals give people “second thoughts.”</p><p>(PRWeb March 17, 2014)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11674395.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11674395.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11674395.htm</guid></item><item><title>Rochester Area Disability Community Commemorates Lives of Disabled Filicide Victims</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11626789.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>As part of a nation-wide Day of Mourning, disability rights advocates in the Rochester area will be joining about 20 other cities by holding a vigil Saturday, March 1, 2013 to honor the lives of disabled people murdered by their families and caregivers.  Speakers at the Rochester event will include Diane Coleman and Stephen Drake of the national disability rights organization Not Dead Yet, which is headquartered in Rochester and a co-sponsor of the national Day of Mourning effort.</p><p>(PRWeb February 28, 2014)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11626789.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11626789.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11626789.htm</guid></item><item><title>Not Dead Yet, Second Thoughts to Testify Against New Hampshire Assisted Suicide Bill</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/02/prweb11551523.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Not Dead Yet’s New England director, John Kelly, who is also Director of Second Thoughts Massachusetts, will be joining disability rights activists in Concord, New Hampshire on Tuesday, February 4, to testify against HB 1325, an assisted suicide bill. The bill defines “terminal” as an “incurable and irreversible condition,” which in a doctor’s opinion “will result in premature death”, making many people with disabilities with years of life ahead of them eligible for assisted suicide rather than suicide prevention.</p><p>(PRWeb February 04, 2014)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/02/prweb11551523.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/02/prweb11551523.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/02/prweb11551523.htm</guid></item><item><title>Anita Cameron and Samantha Crane Join Not Dead Yet Board</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/01/prweb11482474.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2014 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>As the 2014 new year begins, Anita Cameron and Samantha Crane join the Not Dead Yet Board of Directors.  Cameron is a long time disability rights activist who serves in the leadership of the direct action group ADAPT; Crane is a Harvard educated attorney who serves as Director of Public Policy at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network.</p><p>(PRWeb January 13, 2014)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/01/prweb11482474.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/01/prweb11482474.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/01/prweb11482474.htm</guid></item><item><title>Disability Rights Organizations Led By Not Dead Yet Issue Open Letter Criticizing Respecting Choices Program for Bias Against Feeding Tubes and Breathing Devices</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/12/prweb11442713.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:25:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Led by Not Dead Yet, eleven national and twenty-three state and local disability organizations, as well as individuals, have sent an open letter to Respecting Choices, a prominent advance care planning program operated by Gundersen Health Systems in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.  The letter demands the &quot;recall&quot; of two “Fact Sheets” distributed nationally by the program because they discourage people from choosing to use feeding tubes, “BiPAP” breathing devices and ventilators, despite the fact that the alternative is usually death.</p><p>(PRWeb December 20, 2013)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/12/prweb11442713.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/12/prweb11442713.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/12/prweb11442713.htm</guid></item><item><title>Second Thoughts Massachusetts to Testify against Assisted Suicide Bill H 1998</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/12/prweb11424265.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:10:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Disability rights activists from across the region will be speaking Tuesday before the Massachusetts legislature&#39;s Joint Committee on Public Health in opposition to H 1998, which would legalize assisted suicide in the state. The group called Second Thoughts was instrumental last year in the defeat of the Massachusetts assisted suicide referendum, Question 2.</p><p>(PRWeb December 16, 2013)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/12/prweb11424265.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/12/prweb11424265.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/12/prweb11424265.htm</guid></item><item><title>Not Dead Yet CEO Says Persistence Pays Off In Disability Rights Victory On Organ Procurement Protocols</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/11/prweb11337520.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>The disability rights group Not Dead Yet is claiming victory this week after meetings of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Board of Directors, which adopted a policy that removed a significant threat to people with severe disabilities posed by previous proposals that would affect people who use ventilators to breathe, including people with severe spinal cord injuries and neuromuscular disabilities.  The policy prohibits organ procurement organizations from initiating any discussion with the legal next-of-kin about organ donation for a potential DCD donor until after the patient or legal next-of-kin has elected to withdraw life sustaining medical treatment.</p><p>(PRWeb November 15, 2013)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/11/prweb11337520.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/11/prweb11337520.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/11/prweb11337520.htm</guid></item><item><title>Not Dead Yet Hires John Kelly as Regional Director for New England States</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/9/prweb11153954.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Not Dead Yet has hired John Kelly as regional director for advocacy in the New England states.  Kelly is also Director of Second Thoughts Massachusetts, a disability rights group which played a pivotal role in defeating an assisted suicide ballot referendum in Massachusetts in 2012.</p><p>(PRWeb September 24, 2013)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/9/prweb11153954.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/9/prweb11153954.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/9/prweb11153954.htm</guid></item><item><title>Disability Groups Issue Statement on 23rd Anniversary of Americans with Disabilities Act; Not Dead Yet Urges Nat&#39;l Disability Council to Address Medical Discrimination</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10967543.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2013 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>The National Disability Leadership Alliance (NDLA), led by fourteen national disability organizations run by people with disabilities, is celebrating the 23rd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act by issuing a new “Call to Action” to address continuing forms of discrimination against people with disabilities.  Not Dead Yet, one of NDLA’s Steering Committee organizations, provided public comments to the National Council on Disability on the eve of the ADA anniversary, urging the Council to challenge medical discrimination in futile care policies which use negative quality-of-life judgments about disability to deny life-sustaining treatments desired by a disabled person.</p><p>(PRWeb July 26, 2013)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10967543.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10967543.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10967543.htm</guid></item><item><title>Not Dead Yet Provides Video and Written Comments on POLST to Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Approaching Death</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10953795.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Not Dead Yet President and CEO Diane Coleman has submitted video and written public comments to the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Approaching Death for its July 22-23 meeting being held in Houston, Texas.  The public comments raise concerns about the implementation of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST).</p><p>(PRWeb July 23, 2013)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10953795.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10953795.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10953795.htm</guid></item><item><title>Not Dead Yet Urges Secretary Sebelius and Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to Prohibit Organ Procurers from Pressuring Sick or Injured to Give Up on Living</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10852604.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Not Dead Yet, a national disability rights organization, is calling upon Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to adopt national standards prohibiting organ procurement staff from initiating organ donation discussions with individuals or family members before they have made a decision to withdraw life-sustaining treatment.  The OPTN Board is scheduled to vote at its June 24-25 meeting on a policy allowing individual hospitals to set their own organ procurement standards regarding the timing of such discussions.</p><p>(PRWeb June 20, 2013)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10852604.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10852604.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10852604.htm</guid></item><item><title>In Honor of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, Not Dead Yet Urges Elder Abuse Professionals to Speak Out Against Risks of Legalizing Assisted Suicide</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10836840.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>In honor of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on June 15, Not Dead Yet, a national disability rights group, urges elder abuse professionals to speak out against legalization of assisted suicide.  Elder law attorney, Margaret Dore, calls assisted suicide laws a &quot;recipe for elder abuse&quot; and connects the dots between what is known about elder abuse and the specific provisions of assisted suicide legislation.</p><p>(PRWeb June 15, 2013)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10836840.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10836840.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10836840.htm</guid></item><item><title>Not Dead Yet and Second Thoughts Congratulate Connecticut Disability Rights Advocates in Defeat of Assisted Suicide Legislation</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10607579.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Disability right activists from Not Dead Yet and Second Thoughts Massachusetts congratulate their Connecticut colleagues for leading the effort to defeat a bill for the legalization of assisted suicide.&#160; HB 6645, described by proponents as, “aid in dying,” failed to get out of committee by Friday’s deadline of 5:00 p.m.</p><p>(PRWeb April 06, 2013)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10607579.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10607579.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10607579.htm</guid></item><item><title>Not Dead Yet Board Member John Kelly to Testify in Connecticut Legislature Against Assisted Suicide Bill</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10549867.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Not Dead Yet Board member John Kelly will testify before the Public Health Committee of the Connecticut Legislature on Wednesday, March 20, 2013 in opposition to H.B. 6645, which would legalize assisted suicide.  Kelly is also Director of Second Thoughts Massachusetts, a disability rights group that helped to defeat an assisted suicide ballot initiative in Massachusetts in November 2012.</p><p>(PRWeb March 20, 2013)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10549867.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10549867.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10549867.htm</guid></item><item><title>Princeton Attorney Anne Studholme to Testify on Behalf of Disability Groups in New Jersey Assembly Hearing on Assisted Suicide</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/2/prweb10406334.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>On February 7, 2013, Princeton attorney Anne Studholme will testify on behalf of two national disability rights groups in a hearing held by the New Jersey Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee on a proposed bill to legalize assisted suicide.  Studholme will be representing Not Dead Yet and ADAPT, which oppose the legislation as a form of discrimination against old, ill and disabled people.</p><p>(PRWeb February 07, 2013)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/2/prweb10406334.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/2/prweb10406334.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/2/prweb10406334.htm</guid></item><item><title>President of Vermont Coalition for Disability Rights Testifies Against Legalization of Assisted Suicide in State Senate Committee Hearing</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/2/prweb10390846.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:50:06 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Ed Paquin, president of the Vermont Coalition for Disability Rights, represented the disability rights community in hearings held in the state’s Senate Health and Welfare Committee last week regarding a bill to legalize physician assisted suicide.  Not Dead Yet, a national disability group opposed to the legislation, applauded Paquin&#39;s testimony, which described the dangers that state and national groups say the legislation poses for people with disabilities.</p><p>(PRWeb February 02, 2013)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/2/prweb10390846.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/2/prweb10390846.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/2/prweb10390846.htm</guid></item><item><title>Disability Group Urges IOM to Remedy “Glaring Omission” in Membership on End-of-Life Committee</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/1/prweb10376194.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:35:52 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, Not Dead Yet submitted recommendations that two new members be appointed to the Institute of Medicine’s recently formed Committee on Transforming End-of-Life Care to remedy what it called “glaring omissions.”  The group recommended Kelly Buckland, Executive Director of the National Council on Independent Living, and Dr. Ira Byock, Director of Palliative Medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.</p><p>(PRWeb January 30, 2013)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/1/prweb10376194.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/1/prweb10376194.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/1/prweb10376194.htm</guid></item><item><title>Massachusetts Disability Rights Activists Relieved That Voters Defeated Assisted Suicide Initiative</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/11/prweb10103831.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:50:33 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Massachusetts disability rights activists from the group Second Thoughts breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday night as voters appear to have closely defeated Question 2, which would have legalized assisted suicide in the state.  National Not Dead Yet applauds Second Thoughts leadership in the Massachusetts efforts to clarify the dangers in the initiative.</p><p>(PRWeb November 07, 2012)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/11/prweb10103831.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/11/prweb10103831.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/11/prweb10103831.htm</guid></item><item><title>Disability Rights Activist Pam Auer to Represent Not Dead Yet at My Medicaid Matters Rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, October 17</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/10/prweb10017616.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>On Wednesday, October 17, National ADAPT is leading a My Medicaid Matters Rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to oppose cuts to Medicaid. Disability rights activist Pam Auer will represent Not Dead Yet as one of the speakers at the Rally.</p><p>(PRWeb October 17, 2012)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/10/prweb10017616.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/10/prweb10017616.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/10/prweb10017616.htm</guid></item><item><title>Not Dead Yet CEO to Address International Advance Care Planning and &quot;End of Life&quot; Conference Thursday, May 31 in Chicago</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9554624.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Not Dead Yet President and CEO Diane Coleman has accepted an invitation to give an opening plenary presentation to the 3rd International Society for Advance Care Planning and End of Life Care Conference being held in Chicago from May 31 through June 2, 2012.</p><p>(PRWeb May 31, 2012)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9554624.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9554624.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9554624.htm</guid></item><item><title>Thirty national disability organizations blast &quot;Deadly Consequences&quot; segment of the Dr. Phil show</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9551185.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 12:35:55 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>On May 29, thirty national disability organizations lead by Not Dead Yet issued a letter to the Dr. Phil Show, criticizing its April 13th segment entitled “Deadly Consequences.”</p><p>(PRWeb May 30, 2012)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9551185.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9551185.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9551185.htm</guid></item><item><title>Disability Rights Group Challenges Language for Assisted Suicide Ballot Measure as &quot;Misleading, Inaccurate, and Euphemistic&quot;</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9517524.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>On Thursday, May 17, 2012, over 60 Massachusetts voters including members of the disability rights group Second Thoughts filed a challenge before the Supreme Judicial Court regarding the proposed ballot language for the measure that, if approved, would legalize assisted suicide in the state.</p><p>(PRWeb May 18, 2012)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9517524.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9517524.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9517524.htm</guid></item><item><title>With National Day of Mourning, Disability Community Remembers Disabled Victims of Domestic Violence</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9329098.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>The Autistic Self Advocacy Network and Not Dead Yet are leading a National Day of Mourning on March 30th when disability rights advocates in cities across America will be holding vigils and memorial services to honor the lives of disabled people murdered by their families and caretakers.</p><p>(PRWeb March 27, 2012)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9329098.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9329098.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9329098.htm</guid></item><item><title>Not Dead Yet Responds to Report of the Quebec Commission on the Issue of Dying With Dignity</title><link>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9325435.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[  <p>Disability rights advocates from Not Dead Yet react to the Report of the Commission on the Issue of Dying With Dignity in Quebec, Canada, noting that it contains some positive measures as well as fatal flaws.</p><p>(PRWeb March 26, 2012)</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9325435.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9325435.htm</a></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9325435.htm</guid></item></channel></rss>