As the work of the 2016 New York State Legislature begins, disability rights advocates came to Albany Tuesday to educate policymakers about the practical dangers inherent in bills to legalize assisted suicide. Read about it here.

A few op-ed articles compiled by Not Dead Yet, a disability rights group:

Stephanie Woodward: Why disabled people like me fear medically assisted suicide (syracuse.com, 11/6/15)

Stephen Drake: Don’t buy into ‘aid in dying’ (Democrat and Chronicle, 10/30/15)

Lindsay Baran & Anne Sommers: Doctor-prescribed suicide is never the answer (Washington Examiner, 10/19/15)