Empowering Choices in the Disability Community

The movement to expand end-of-life care options and the disability rights movement share important core values: autonomy, independence and self-determination. That’s why many disability rights advocates support the full range of end-of-life options.

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Stories are an essential part of our work to educate and empower all people to understand their options, plan ahead and take action early to chart their end-of-life journey. 

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Vickie George with a fishing pole and a recently caught Fish

Vickie George

Co-founder and president of Yes U Can USA, Vickie George advocates for autonomy in healthcare decisions for people with disabilities.
“I want to maintain autonomy over my personal healthcare decisions at the end of my life, just as I have throughout my life.”

David Mills

David Mills, who has lived with spinocerebellar ataxia for 40 years, is advocating for medical aid in dying in his home state of Delaware.
“Anyone who thinks they should be the one who determines how I die is doing me a great injustice.”
David Mills holds an award smiling

Dustin Hankinson

Dustin was a resident of Montana and a tireless advocate for disabled people and medical aid in dying.
“Spread compassion, love and kindness whenever and wherever you can. Be kind to one another. ~ Peace Out ~ D.”

Latest News

Compassion & Choices Action Network Rebuts Federal Lawsuit by Disability Rights Groups Seeking to Invalidate CA Medical Aid-in-Dying Law
March 12, 2024

Compassion & Choices Action Network strongly challenges the arguments of several disability groups and two people with disabilities who filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday in the Central District of California against California officials challenging the End of Life Option Act. The plaintiffs claim that the recently updated California medicalaid-in-dying law, which took effect in 2022, discriminates against people with disabilities by violating the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the U.S. Constitution’s due process and equal protection clauses in the 14th Amendment.

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