They say the law violates the ADA, and makes it too easy for people with terminal diseases whose deaths aren’t imminent to kill themselves.
| KFF Health News
Plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit, which was filed in Los Angeles County, argue that life-ending drugs are more likely to be used by people with disabilities and racial and ethnic minorities because those groupsto receive proper medical and mental health care. The advocates fear that vulnerable people could be pressured into taking their lives by family members or caretakers or feel pressure themselves because they don’t want to be a burden.
The law violates constitutional equal protection and due process safeguards designed to protect people from discrimination and exclusion, said Michael Bien, one of the attorneys who sued on behalf of the United Spinal Association, which has at least 60,000 members with spinal cord injuries or who use wheelchairs, including 5,000 in California;
People who choose to use drugs supplied by a doctor to kill themselves may not realize they could instead, potentially including sedation that can render them unconscious, said Ingrid Tischer, one of two individual plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
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