Category: Health

While New Yorkers enthusiastically embrace a new Medical Aid in Dying law, we’re seeing the catastrophic results of such laws on the other side of the Atlantic. In a commentary published at the New York Post, Able Americans Senior Fellow Mark Mostert, Ph.D. observes: ...

Curtis Hill recommends we enshrine the term “to be Faucied” in order to ensure that Anthony Fauci's name "remains the permanent cautionary symbol of the approach we must always remember – and never accept – in American health care." In ...

Postscript to the 11-Part Series "Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?" As we have seen, the seeds of assisted suicide and euthanasia were sown decades ago. However, the pro-death movement can no longer hide behind altruism and good faith. It ...

Part 11 in the 11-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. While the Netherlands and other European countries have descended slowly into the complete acceptance of medicalized killing, the slippery slope has become way steeper in Canada ...

Disability issues rarely command sustained attention in Washington, but a new poll suggests that voters across the political spectrum share more common ground on these issues than many policymakers may realize. To better understand public attitudes toward disability policy, Able ...

Part 10 in the 11-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. As we have seen throughout this series, “survival of the fittest” ideas and eugenics have historically shaped the modern global movements promoting assisted suicide and ...

“Fraud must be rooted out. People with disabilities should not be uprooted with it.” Washington, D.C. — As the Trump Administration targets widespread fraud in government benefit programs, a new report from the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Able ...

Part 9 in the 11-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. As noted in Part 8, sentiment in the U.S. supporting assisted suicide and euthanasia grew exponentially after 2000. After the states of Oregon (1994) and ...

Waste, fraud, and abuse aren’t just budget problems—they’re human ones. By Leslie Ford, Sara Hart Weir, and Rachel Barkley Medicaid was created in 1965 to ensure that Americans who were poor, elderly, or disabled could access basic health care. But ...

Part 8 in the 11-Part Series "Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?" With assisted suicide and euthanasia now in the cultural mainstream, the pro-death lobby began to seize the moment. But which was the easier issue to move forward: assisted ...