The Joffe Bill to legalize assisted suicide in the UK is dead, at least for now. Many people in the UK worked long and hard for this day—which not too many months ago seemed as if it might not come. In no small measure, the victory comes because disability rights activists there have, as here, decided to vigorously engage the issue in opposition.
Jane Campbell, one of the UK’s leading disability rights proponents and founder of Not Dead Yet,UK, sent me these wonderful photographs of the launch of NDY,UK. With her permission, I share them with readers of Secondhand Smoke. (A simple registration may be required.)
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