Second Thoughts MA

[Second Thoughts MA @2ndThoughtsMA]

We don't need to die to get dignity! Dignity is inherent. Disabled people deserve suicide prevention not a pat on the head and a glass of poison @Mapoli

[John Kelly @JohnBrianKelly]

#NoAssistedSuicideMA Join @2ndThoughtsMA and @NotDeadYetUSA Thurs 10-13 11:45 AM John Adams Cthouse (Somerset @ Ashburton Place) + Facebook live #PAS belongs in pple’s legislature, where #PWD get listened to. @BostonGlobe @statehousenews @wgbh2boston https://t.co/oHkf9uwL0Y /1

[NeglectedNoMore @NeglectedNo]

After an investment firm bought St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged, the company reduced staff, removed amenities, and set the stage for a deadly outbreak of #COVID19. Welcome to private, for-profit #eldercare, by @YasminRafiei https://t.co/DBaRzE3O4U via @NewYorker @egpayne #LTC

[Second Thoughts MA @2ndThoughtsMA]

We must take the profit out of nursing homes, it means worker shortage, patient neglect, and increased deaths.

[Yasmin Rafiei @YasminRafiei]

Just over a year ago, I read a paper which showed that when private equity buys nursing homes, death rates go up 10%. I was a med student at Stanford, but I halted my studies to investigate. Today, that investigation was published in @NewYorker https://t.co/cQzbWggk46

[Diane Coleman @ndycoleman]

The top 5 reported reasons for assisted suicide requests have nothing to do with pain, but with unaddressed disability-related issues. Ableism kills. Disabled people need support, not #MurderByMedicine. Oppose MA S.1384 @CindyFriedmanMA @Sen_Chandler @repjohnlawn @jaylivingstone

[Not Dead Yet @NotDeadYetUSA]

Protect Disabled Lives in Massachusetts: Oppose S.1384/ H.2381, which would legalize assisted suicide & risk the lives of disabled people. Use this form to send the message to the MA Joint Committee on Health Care Financing that these bills must not pass!

[DANIESEMcM @DANIESEMcM]

DREDF: [A]ssisted suicide discriminates against people with disabilities, degrades their perceived value and worth, and puts them at higher risk of discrimination and abuse.

[Second Thoughts MA @2ndThoughtsMA]

So true!

[Nicole the Ostrich Hunter @Nicole_in_DC]

Connecticut: we'll propose a bill to give suicidal patients lethal drugs to kill them, but don't you dare use a plastic straw! #ctleg #CTPolitics #CTnews #disability @2ndThoughtsCT

[Second Thoughts MA @2ndThoughtsMA]

.@Steinberg06880 @NotDeadYetUSA @DREDF #noPASct #ctpolitics

[Second Thoughts MA @2ndThoughtsMA]

Connecticut, reject assisted suicide. Reason 1 Misdiagnosis. 12% to 15% of people who enter hospice w terminal diagnosis "graduate". Assisted suicide inevitably takes lives of trusting, innocent people. Time for Second Thoughts. @RepSteinberg @ctnewsjunkie

[Second Thoughts MA @2ndThoughtsMA]

.@Steinberg06880 @NotDeadYetUSA @DREDF #noPASct #ctpolitics

[Second Thoughts MA @2ndThoughtsMA]

Hello @RepSteinberg, following up on our @FullStoryWSHU discussion, here is citation 4 terminal misdiagnosis rate of 12%-15%. That's 20 or more of the 168 OR 2018 deaths. Too high a price to pay! https://t.co/YpBFyH80ng @ctnewsjunkie #CTleg @ctcapitolreport @2ndThoughtsCT

[Second Thoughts MA @2ndThoughtsMA]

.@Steinberg06880 @NotDeadYetUSA @DREDF #noPASct #ctpolitics

[Second Thoughts MA @2ndThoughtsMA]

Oregonian Jeanette Hall voted 4 assisted suicide ballot measure, She was diagnosed terminal. Asked Dr. 4 Rx, he persuaded her 2 try treatment. Now alive 18 yrs later. Keep CT Jeanettes alive, reject HB 5898 @JNCWriter #ctleg @RepSteinberg @ctnewsjunkie https://t.co/jwTH789eMR

[Second Thoughts MA @2ndThoughtsMA]

.@Steinberg06880 @NotDeadYetUSA @DREDF

[Second Thoughts MA @2ndThoughtsMA]

#PAS proponents say 21 years in Oregon, no prob. 2 nurses tried 2 kill Wendy Melcher, w morphine suppositories. OR nursing board kept secret, tap on wrist penalty. @RepSteinberg @CTnewsjunkie #ctleg @SusanHaighAP https://t.co/uDDZoRGlnD

[Second Thoughts MA @2ndThoughtsMA]

#PAS proponents say 21 years in Oregon, no prob. 2 nurses tried 2 kill Wendy Melcher, w morphine suppositories. OR nursing board kept secret, tap on wrist penalty. @RepSteinberg @CTnewsjunkie #ctleg @SusanHaighAP https://t.co/uDDZoRGlnD

[Second Thoughts MA @2ndThoughtsMA]

Oregonian Jeanette Hall voted 4 assisted suicide ballot measure, She was diagnosed terminal. Asked Dr. 4 Rx, he persuaded her 2 try treatment. Now alive 18 yrs later. Keep CT Jeanettes alive, reject HB 5898 @JNCWriter #ctleg @RepSteinberg @ctnewsjunkie https://t.co/jwTH789eMR

[Second Thoughts MA @2ndThoughtsMA]

Hello @RepSteinberg, following up on our @FullStoryWSHU discussion, here is citation 4 terminal misdiagnosis rate of 12%-15%. That's 20 or more of the 168 OR 2018 deaths. Too high a price to pay! https://t.co/YpBFyH80ng @ctnewsjunkie #CTleg @ctcapitolreport @2ndThoughtsCT

[Second Thoughts MA @2ndThoughtsMA]

Connecticut, reject assisted suicide. Reason 1 Misdiagnosis. 12% to 15% of people who enter hospice w terminal diagnosis "graduate". Assisted suicide inevitably takes lives of trusting, innocent people. Time for Second Thoughts. @RepSteinberg @ctnewsjunkie

[Second Thoughts CT @2ndThoughtsCT]

CT Public Health Committee meeting tomorrow, 4/1. While anything can happen, we appear to have just enough votes to defeat #AssistedSuicide #HB5898 in committee. Please keep up the e-mails to committee members to VOTE NO. #noPASct #ctpolitics #ctleg

[Second Thoughts MA @2ndThoughtsMA]

@AndrewGillum .@RonPlacone @jimmy_dore looks like just another hack!

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Survivors of abuse used #WhyIDidntReport to highlight the difficulties, fear, anger and shame that so often surround sexual harassment and assault https://t.co/dFWYgIYrjL

[CBS Mornings @CBSMornings]

Since #WhyIDidntReport started, the organization that runs the National Sexual Assault Hotline says it saw a 42% increase in phone calls compared to an average Friday and Saturday. https://t.co/Ej4hqtHerA

[Diane Coleman @ndycoleman]

Even the Congress that resisted Hillary-care did not deny her Children's Health Insurance Program. Loss of CHIP is yet another travesty. https://t.co/7SdwEa5aPS