{"id":333614,"date":"2025-07-02T12:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T17:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=333614"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:49:46","slug":"disability-groups-sue-colorado-assisted-suicide-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/disability-groups-sue-colorado-assisted-suicide-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability groups sue Colorado over assisted suicide law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>One woman and a coalition of four disability groups are suing the state of Colorado, arguing that its law allowing assisted suicide discriminates against people with disabilities.<\/p>\n<h2>Key Takeaways:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The federal lawsuit filed Monday claims Colorado&#8217;s End of Life Options Act is unconstitutional and discriminates against those with disabilities.<\/li>\n<li>The plaintiffs allege that while suicidal people are traditionally given suicide prevention help, those who are disabled are instead pushed toward suicide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Details:<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/endassistedsuicide.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dkt-001-Complaint-06-30-2025-1694-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit was filed<\/a> Monday in a U.S. District Court in Denver. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/06\/30\/colorado-disability-rights-lawsuit-assisted-suicide-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a> the law discriminates unjustly against those who are disabled, while also complaining it \u201cdoes not require any evaluation, screening, or treatment by a mental health professional for serious mental illness, depression, or treatable suicidality before the lethal prescription is written.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the lawsuit alleges that the assisted suicide law has been used to allow the deaths of people who are not terminally ill. As Live Action News has previously reported, at least one doctor in the state has admitted that she has <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/colorado-doctor-suicide-pills-anorexia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prescribed suicide drugs<\/a> to patients suffering from anorexia nervosa \u2014 a mental condition that is\u00a0<strong>not<\/strong>\u00a0considered terminal.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"nxs-video-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/redir1.kdvr.com\/nxs-video-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\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-frame-src=\"10853454\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs include the United Spinal Association, Not Dead Yet, Atlantis Adapt, Institute for Patients&#8217; Rights, and Mary Gossman, a 26-year-old woman who has anorexia and depression. They are operating under an umbrella group called <a href=\"https:\/\/endassistedsuicide.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">End Assisted Suicide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Valli\u00e8re, executive director of the Institute for Patients\u2019 Rights, told <a href=\"https:\/\/kdvr.com\/news\/local\/disability-and-patient-rights-groups-file-lawsuit-challenging-colorados-assisted-suicide-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox 31<\/a> that the current law \u201cviolates the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and parts of the U.S. Constitution.\u201d He noted that while typically, suicidal people receive help to discourage death, disabled people are instead pushed toward opting for assisted suicide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people get suicide prevention, other people get suicide help,\u201d Valli\u00e8re said. \u201cThe people who get suicide help are all people with disabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This message was seconded by Dawn Russell, a disability advocate with ADAPT Denver. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have a disability, you get suicide prevention. If you do \u2014 they treat you like your life isn\u2019t worth living,\u201d Russell said.<\/p>\n<h2>The Backstory:<\/h2>\n<p>Colorado&#8217;s assisted suicide law was first passed in 2016, but in 2024, Governor Jared Polis <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/colorado-expands-assisted-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed legislation<\/a> that expanded the law and removed many of its original safeguards.<\/p>\n<p>Among the changes were allowing non-physicians, like APRNs, to administer assisted suicide drugs. In addition, the waiting period for assisted suicide was reduced from 15 days to seven days.<\/p>\n<h2>The Other Side:<\/h2>\n<p>Those named in the lawsuit \u2014\u00a0including Polis, the Colorado Attorney General\u2019s Office, the state medical board, and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment \u2014 all declined to comment on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>But Kevin D\u00edaz, president and CEO of Compassion &amp; Choices, defended the law:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The Colorado Medical Aid in Dying law sets forth rigorous safeguards, including the requirement that individuals must have the capacity to make informed health care decisions. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Participation is entirely voluntary, and the process remains firmly under the control of the terminally ill person through the mandate of self-administration. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Importantly, having a disability alone does not qualify someone for eligibility.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>The Bottom Line:<\/h2>\n<p>Though the law&#8217;s defenders cite safeguards to prevent its abuse, 2024&#8217;s legislation shows that those safeguards are always at risk of being eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>Further, anecdotal evidence \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/quadriplegic-canadian-mom-disability-support-euthanasia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">especially<\/a> out of <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/canada-assisted-suicide-poverty-disability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canada<\/a> \u2014 shows that when assisted suicide and euthanasia are options, those in the disability community are routinely targeted as candidates for death.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/p2a.co\/loigxnb\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-325597\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-700x251.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-700x251.png 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-768x275.png 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1-500x179.png 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LA25DefundPP_EmailBannerAd-02-1.png 1167w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One woman and a coalition of four disability groups are suing the state of Colorado, arguing that its law allowing assisted suicide discriminates against people with disabilities. Key Takeaways: The federal lawsuit filed Monday claims Colorado&#8217;s End of Life Options Act is unconstitutional and discriminates against those with disabilities. 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