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EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE
The Murder of Tracy Latimer
Tracy Latimer was a 12 year old girl with cerebral palsy who lived with her family on a farm near Wilkie, Saskatchewan.  On Oct 24, 1993, Tracy's father, Robert Latimer, decided that Tracy's life wasn't worth living.  He placed Tracy in the cab of his truck and fed carbon monoxide into the cab.  Initially he claimed  that Tracy died in her sleep but later confessed that he killed her for merciful reasons.  Over the last 8 years of court proceedings, there has been a huge debate in the Canadian Public whether Robert Latimer should serve a jail sentence for murdering his daughter.
Articles on Tracy Latimer
  • Derksen, Jim. (1995) Deadly Compassion - Fearsome Kindness:  Murdered in the Name of Kindness
  • Frazee, Catherine. (1994)  A Wake Up Call: An interview with Catherine Frazee
  • Frazee, Catherine. (1995) Our Lives Are Worth Living: Comments from a Vigil for Tracy Latimer
  • Koch, Tom. (2001) Disabled are not Dogs - Vancouver Sun
  • Kunc, Norman. (2001) Robert Latimer and the Dread of Disability
  • Sobsey, Dick. (1994) Susan Smith and Robert Latimer: A Tale of Two Murders. ICAD Nov. 23, 1994.
  • Sobsey, Dick. (1994) An Illusion of Autonomy: Questioning Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. Brief submitted to The Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. Winnipeg, Manitoba. September 30, 1994.

    Articles on Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide
  • 12 Problems With Assisted Suicide - Excerpt from the brief submitted to The Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (Canada) by Dick Sobsey
  • Fact Sheet on Euthanasia & Physician Assisted Suicide
  • Were Kevorkin's "Patients" Terminal?
  • Coleman, D., Drake, S., Longmore, P. (1997) The REAL Hemlock Society What the Hemlock Society claims it believes about euthanizing people with disabilities and what it actually says.
  • Compassionate Healthcare Network Association. (1994) Infanticide And Nonvoluntary Euthanasia As Practiced In The Netherlands.
  • Derksen, Jim. (1995) Deadly Compassion - Fearsome Kindness:  Murdered in the Name of Kindness
  • Frazee, Catherine. (1994)  A Wake Up Call: An interview with Catherine Frazee
  • Frazee, Catherine. (1995) Our Lives Are Worth Living: Comments from a Vigil for Tracy Latimer
  • Johnson, Mary. (1984) Right to Life, Fight to Die: The Elizabeth Bouvia Saga
  • Montgomery, Cal. (1998)  The Tactics of Survival
  • Sobsey, Dick. (1994) Susan Smith and Robert Latimer: A Tale of Two Murders. ICAD Nov. 23, 1994.
  • Sobsey, Dick. (1994) An Illusion of Autonomy: Questioning Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia.
  • Van der Klift, Emma. (1997) "We Don’t Know What We’re Handing You"

    Articles from Mouth Magazine "The Voice of Disability Rights"
    This is a selection of articles, also courtesy of Mouth Magazine that deal with medical discrimination, euthanasia and other threats to our existence.  You can subscribe to Mouth lf you want to read more of what Mouth has to say about important issues affecting disabled people's civil rights.
  • Bioethics: Introduction to Theories from Hell
  • Euthanasia: A Choice for Doctors
  • Medical Homicide Plays Vegas
  • Kill That Cripple

    Recommended Readings on Euthanasia and Disability

    Links to Related Web sites
  • Not Dead Yet!
  • Gregor Wolbring - Euthanasia and Biotechnology
  • International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force

    In Memoriam
  • Elizabeth Bouvia
  • Corey Lynn Brown
  • Robin Appleby

    WRONGFUL INCARCERATION / UNFAIR JUDICIAL TREATMENT
    Articles
  • What Can Happen When People with Development Disabilities Encounter the Criminal Justice System
  • Disability Education for Law Enforcement: Back to Life’s Infusion Approach - J. Houchins
  • The Struggle for Equal Justice: California Victims of Crime Committee - D. Sorensen
  • Collaborating to Serve Crime Victims in Denver: Victim Services 2000 - M. Kovener
  • Mentally Disabled Individuals Being Convicted On The Basis Of False Confessions

    Richard Lapointe
  • Reasonable Doubt: The Case of Richard Lapoint. Condron, Tom. (1994) ,
  • The Richard Lapointe Case Chronology

    Joe Arridy
  • Summary of Joe Arridy's case

    Jerome Bowden
  • Summary of Jerome Bowden's case

    Johnny Lee Wilson
  • Summary of Johnny Lee Wilson's case

    Intellectual Disability And The Criminal Justice System
  • Bibliography & Materials List


    FACILITATED COMMUNICATION

  • Excerpts from Contested Words, Contested Science: Unraveling the Facilitated Communication Controversy
  • Link to The Facilitated Communication Institute

    SOCIOLOGY OF DISABILITY

    Societal Values & Attitudes

    Articles
  • Kunc, N. & Van der Klift, E. (1995) In Spite of My Disability
  • Davis Creal, Lee. (1999) The "Disability of Thinking" The "Disabled" Body.

    Recommended Readings

    Other Resources
  • Disability History Museum's Library
  • Museum of disABILITY History
  • Disability Social History Project
  • Mental Health History Timeline (A Comprehensive site on instructional and social policy)
  • Society For Disability Studies

    DISABILITY & SEXUALITY

    Articles

  • Sexuality & Spinal Curd Injury
  • Sexuality and Spina Bifida

    Recommended Readings

    Links to Related Web sites
  • Diverse City Press Inc.
  • Sexuality and Disability
  • Disability Resources Links 
  • Sexual Health
  • Annotated Bibliography: Sexuality and Disability..

  • FAMILY ISSUES & DISABILITY .

    Links to Related Web sites
  • Beach Center - Home Page
  • Beach Center - Family Focus 
  • Family to Family Network
  • Welcome to the National Fathers' Network!
  • Partners in Policymaking - Minnesota
       Note: I could not find a national list Partners in Policymaking addresses. I therefore suggest you do an internet search for Partners in Policymaking with the name of your state. N.K.