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• Title: Brief of Amici Curiae Not Dead Yet Et Al.: Jeb Bush V. Michael Schiavo.
• Author : Issues in Law & Medicine
• Release Date : January 22, 2004
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 268 KB

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Introduction and Statement of Interest Amici are among the nation's leading civil rights organizations representing people with disabilities. (1) Many are staffed and governed by a majority of people with disabilities of all types, including severe physical and cognitive disabilities, and their families. They led the movement to enact the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. [section] 12101, and other civil rights laws protecting persons with disabilities. They join here to support HB 35-E because the standards upon which Ms. Schiavo's life or death turn may, if defined broadly enough, also be applied to thousands of people with disabilities who, like Ms. Schiavo, cannot readily articulate their own views and must rely on third parties as substitute decision-makers. The need for limits on the powers of such decision makers is nowhere more clear than on a question as fundamental as life or death, because the consequences of abuse or misjudgment are both ultimate and irreversible. For this reason, neither a court nor any third party may base a decision on their own view of the affected person's "quality of life." Only the person's own desires may drive this determination.

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