Editor’s note: Access Press board members are writing guest articles to highlight the newspaper’s matching grant campaign, which goes on until year’s end. This article is by John Clark. It…
Category: Commentary
Editor's Column - November 2019
The Department of Human Services seems to be in the news on a pretty regular basis lately. Most recently, the Department is getting nailed for overpayment of Medicaid funds to…
Educate yourself on end-of-life options, consider level of support
November 1st marked five years since 29 year-old Brittany Maynard peacefully and legally ended her own life. You may remember Brittany’s story, published in People magazine, which put a face…
Assisted suicide is a dangerous threat to people with disabilities
The community of people with disabilities has considered the “End of Life Options Act” otherwise known as physician and nurse-prescribed suicide. We have thoroughly studied and vetted the effect of…
From the larger view, assisted suicide is simply too dangerous
Marianne Turnbull, who is seriously ill with ovarian cancer, testified in September for the legalization of assisted suicide in Minnesota. To follow-up on the significant opposition testimony of disabled people,…