Patients' Rights Action Fund

A leading national, non-partisan single-issue organization fighting assisted suicide legislation alongside patients, disability rights, and medical pros.

[Patients' Rights Action Fund @PRAFund]

In less than 90 seconds, learn how and why PRAF fights every day to make #assistedsuicide laws a thing of the past. Please watch now!

[Patients' Rights Action Fund @PRAFund]

This speech by @AshleyDalton_MP is extraordinary powerful and covers many of the most important reasons to oppose assisted suicide.

We're grateful the UK Parliament voted against this bill, and we hope many will watch this speech and understand the dangers of assisted suicide.

[Ashley Dalton MP @AshleyDalton_MP]

My full speech at the Assisted Dying Bill debate on Friday.

[Patients' Rights Action Fund @PRAFund]

We're so grateful that once again, MPs voted to prevent assisted suicide in the UK!

https://t.co/e8IluAP469

[Patients' Rights Action Fund @PRAFund]

This Act is meant to protect people with disabilities, and assisted suicide laws do the exact opposite - they put vulnerable people at risk of deadly harm.

That’s why we fight these laws every day - to protect the rights given by the ADA & the constitution.

[HHS Civil Rights @HHSOCR]

As we mark the ADA's 36th anniversary, HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reaffirms a fundamental principle of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): people with disabilities have the same inherent dignity and equal worth as every other person. (1/3)

[Patients' Rights Action Fund @PRAFund]

Today we join with disability rights organizations in signing a letter to George Clooney decrying his involvement in an upcoming movie which "portrays death as an acceptable or dignified response to disability."

#InLoveWithLiving

READ HERE:

https://t.co/T9sEh8v5PI

[Patients' Rights Action Fund @PRAFund]

"Adding this so-called ‘choice’ to a dysfunctional healthcare system run by an inept government on the brink of bankruptcy will inevitably push people toward cheaper, lethal options."

Read our statement on France passing assisted suicide:

https://t.co/4YMgMbUuC9

[Patients' Rights Action Fund @PRAFund]

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the @HHSGov to set up new monitoring rules for hospices to root out discrimination against vulnerable populations in the provision of medically-assisted suicide.

https://t.co/uK0LpvdoX6

[Assisted Suicide Watch @ASWatchUSA]

🚨NEW VIDEO: Is the slippery slope of assisted suicide imaginary, or a deadly reality?

@ASWatchUSA's latest video looks into what people are told about assisted suicide, versus what actually happens.

Watch the whole video: https://t.co/69aRXdpJr1

[Patients' Rights Action Fund @PRAFund]

"Let us reform our health care system to surround dying patients with truth, dignity, and real support, rather than offering them an exit ramp disguised as compassion."

Read this from former Massachusetts governor, Jane Swift.

https://t.co/1GZIM0Zvwb

[Patients' Rights Action Fund @PRAFund]

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

Suicide is NOT medical treatment!

[End Assisted Suicide @EndAsstSuicide]

🚨 BREAKING: We have filed lawsuits in New York and Illinois challenging assisted suicide laws.

People with disabilities deserve equal protection under the law, not a two-tiered system that treats some suicides as tragedies and others as solutions.

#EndAssistedSuicide

[Patients' Rights Action Fund @PRAFund]

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.

[Patients' Rights Action Fund @PRAFund]

"Assisted suicide, where it is legalized, deprives many of a truly dignified death and deprives loved ones of the opportunity to be there for their loved one during their last days and hours."

https://t.co/S6OUWJpKW8

[Patients' Rights Action Fund @PRAFund]

"It’s not uncommon for people of different political persuasions to disagree with legalizing assisted suicide, but it’s more unusual for them to actively work together to stop it."

Great write-up on our friends at @2ndThoughtsCT & their work!

https://t.co/u63YCvoo2P

[Patients' Rights Action Fund @PRAFund]

"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."

https://t.co/SruNDm3azF

[Patients' Rights Action Fund @PRAFund]

The UK bill to establish assisted suicide has officially died in Parliament, ensuring vulnerable patients will not be coerced toward death.

UK advocates worked fervently to prevent this law from going forward, and their efforts were not in vain!

[Liz "blue tick" Carr @thelizcarr]

Relieved the assisted suicide bill has run out of time in the Lords

Pro campaigners are spinning scrutiny as a lack of democracy

So, is democracy:
The PM making a promise to a TV personality?
No mention of it in the manifesto?
A biased Commons committee loaded with proponents?

[End Assisted Suicide @EndAsstSuicide]

We are grateful for this question from @SenatorLankford about whether the HHS is involved with protecting people with disabilities from dangerous assisted suicide laws, and his mention of our lawsuits.

The response by @SecKennedy is encouraging.

https://t.co/drnZyvLsTE

[Patients' Rights Action Fund @PRAFund]

If it’s easier to be approved for assisted suicide 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.

https://t.co/Zw9biTStNA

[Patients' Rights Action Fund @PRAFund]

"Noelia Castillo Ramos’s death wasn’t an exercise of freedom but a desperate response to its erosion. A truly free society doesn’t leave citizens in a predicament where death is considered their best option."

https://t.co/APg0XrFigM

[Patients' Rights Action Fund @PRAFund]

"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 suicide. Watch more:

https://t.co/tXSgvhqOlu