Following is an excerpt from the

NCD Bulletin
A Monthly Publication of the National Council on Disability
Marca Bristo, Chairperson
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April 1997
 

NCD Takes Position on Physician-Assisted Suicide

During its quarterly meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the National Council on Disability voted to oppose the legalization of physician-assisted suicide. After reviewing the U.S. Supreme Court briefs and current research and consulting with organizations with various views, NCD found that the interests of people who would benefit from legalizing physican-assisted suicide are heavily outweighed by the probability that any law, procedures, and standards imposed to regulate physican-assisted suicide will be misapplied to unnecessarily end the lives of people with disabilities, and that such decisions would also entail an intolerable degree of intervention by legal and medical officials. On balance, NCD found that the status quo regarding physican-assisted suicide is preferable to the limited benefits to be gained by its legalization. The report, Assisted Suicide: A Disability Perspective, was distributed to the House Commerce Committee, ADAPT, Not Dead Yet, and the Hemlock Society, and will soon be available on NCD's Internet homepage. It can also be obtained by contacting Stacey Brown at 202-272-2004.

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