Dear Advocates and Friends,
I remain grateful to the wonderful advocates on the ground who continue to show up, write letters, meet with legislators, and do the work of educating their neighbors on this important issue. Thanks to their tireless efforts, New Hampshire remains safe today and likely for the rest of the session, from the dangerous and discriminatory policy of assisted suicide.
Onward!
Jessica Rodgers (pictured above)
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Out of nearly two thousand entries, 146 films were selected for the 2025 Slamdance Film Festival in Los Angeles. Disposable Humanity captured the Audience Award and received an Honorable Mention for the Slamdance Unstoppable Feature Grand Jury Prize.
In Disposable Humanity, a profound, unforgettable documentary of historic disability injustice, Cameron Mitchell and his family guide the viewer down corridors of Nazi era eugenical horror into a past that many of us think we know but don’t.
Tim Stainton, Director of the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship once called Canada’s eugenical descent into assisted suicide and euthanasia, “the biggest existential threat to disabled people since the Nazi’s program in Germany in the 1930s”.
For anyone engaged in fighting health disparities and disability discrimination today, it becomes plain by the end of the film that the present-day creep of assisted suicide laws in America has an essential part of its ancestry rooted in the international ideas, language and maps of Aktion T4 – the Euthanasia Program of yesterday.
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In 2017, my Mother was murdered by hospice drug protocol. She was not dying when we were enticed to enroll her to provide help to my Dad, her caregiver as my sister and I lived states away. That began my journey warning people about the reality of what hospice had become. I became a talk show host on Betrayed by Hospice sharing her story as well as having other guests on to share the heartbreaking story of them losing a loved one to hospice. I also had experts on from various organizations to share what they could do to help.
That was almost eight years ago. In February 2024 I started writing a book about what I have learned over those years. My Mother's story as well as 34 others stories is included in this book. It was finished in March 2025 and is now published!
Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
The father argued that his daughter suffered from mental disorders that "could affect her ability to make a free and conscious decision" as required by law.
He also said there were indications his daughter had changed her mind and that her ailment did not entail "unbearable physical or psychological suffering".
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. (pictured right).
I had the opportunity on Monday, February 24, to speak at the British Parliament (Westminster) about the reality of assisted suicide in America. I focused on the experience with assisted suicide in Oregon and California.
The UK assisted suicide bill that is sponsored by Kim Leadbeater is similar to American style assisted suicide laws.
Members of Parliament or their staff came to my presentation based on having time between meetings. Several MP's or their staff attended the event and asked excellent questions.
One MP, who attended, supported the Leadbeater assisted suicide bill. He is a new MP who told me that he only had 10 minutes for me between meetings.
I shared some basic data concerning assisted suicide in America including the bills that the assisted suicide lobby are promoting to expand assisted suicide in states where it is legal. I made it very clear that the strategy of the assisted suicide lobby is to first get a bill passed and then to amend the bill later.
