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Disability and Patient Advocacy Groups File Federal Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of Colorado's Assisted Suicide Law
- Disability rights groups and Mary Gossman filed a lawsuit June 30 in U.S. District Court challenging Colorado’s assisted suicide law, claiming it discriminates against disabled people by offering lethal prescriptions instead of prevention.
- Proposition 106 approved in 2016 legalized assisted suicide in Colorado, which was expanded in 2024 to include more prescribers, shaping current law.
- According to Colorado’s health department, 510 prescriptions were issued in 2024, with 313 pickups and 429 deaths, including 18 for severe malnutrition cases.
- Disability groups seek a court order to declare Colorado’s aid-in-dying law unconstitutional under ADA, Rehabilitation Act, ACA, and Fourteenth Amendment, aiming to block its enforcement.
- Across the U.S., 11 states plus D.C. permit assisted suicide, with New York's recent law awaiting signature, potentially shaping future legislation.
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Catholic News AgencyAdvocates sue Colorado over suicide law they say discriminates against disabled
Multiple advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against Colorado on June 30, 2025, claiming its assisted suicide law unconstitutionally discriminates against disabled people. / Credit: Patrick Thomas/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jul 1, 2025 / 11:36 am (CNA... [...]
Patients’ rights advocates claim Colorado assisted suicide law violates ADA discrimination policies
A national patients’ rights organization recently joined a federal lawsuit that challenges Colorado’s physician-assisted suicide law, arguing that it unconstitutionally discriminates against disabled individuals by violating… The post Patients’ rights advocates claim Colorado assisted suicide law violates ADA discrimination policies appeared first on CatholicVote org.
Advocates Sue Colorado Over Suicide Law They Say Discriminates Against Disabled
New Africa The state legalized assisted suicide in 2016, one of several states that year to do so. The suit asks the court to block the law under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, as well as the Affordable Care Act and the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The Fort Morgan Times
Disability rights groups sue Colorado, challenging medical aid-in-dying law
Four disability rights organizations and a Littleton woman are challenging Colorado’s medical aid-in-dying law, arguing it discriminates against people with disabilities by allowing them to die by suicide instead of preventing it. The complaint, filed Monday in U.S. District Court, argues that the law’s requirement that someone have a terminal illness to access lethal medication means that only people with disabilities will receive a prescriptio…
Aspen Daily News
Disability and Patient Advocacy Groups File Federal Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of Colorado's Assisted Suicide Law
Plaintiffs raise concerns about assisted suicide for patients with non-terminal conditions including eating disorders and spinal cord injuries
"My heart cannot bear to see so much courage and so much despair. I feel the duty to continue the fight for the dignity of the human being until the last moment, to break the cruel insensitivity of institutions that condemn to suffering. The arrival in Parliament of a law on the end of life should have been the result of the appeals of the Constitutional Court and also of our legislative initiatives, but the details that are emerging on the draf…
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