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Forbes Accessibility 100 List for 2025
Jun 27, 2025
Every year, Forbes Magazine creates a list of the companies and organizations it deems the best in terms of accessibility. This year's list include Docs with Disabilities, Diversability, & more. We were particularly excited to see our friends at New Disabled South make the list, as they have sponsored ASL for our May 17, 2025 #HandsOff event & do so much important work for the disability community. Not every organization/company listed is disability-focused--some are just...
The End-Of-Life Options Act Failed to Pass in Illinois
Jun 08, 2025
We are so pleased to announce that despite the Illinois House's passage of the "End of Life Options Act," which is a patient-assisted suicided bill that was hidden as an amendment in an unrelated bill about food safety, the bill ultimately failed to pass the Senate! Although we know this type of legislation has been initiated in previous years and will be introduced in future sessions, the disability community stood up and was heard! We know that MAID (Medical Assistance In Dying) bills...
The End of Life Options Act & its Consequences
Jun 01, 2025
On May 30, 2025, the Illinois House passed the "End Of Life Options Act," which is a right to die bill. The disability community opposed this bill, including Illinois' primary disability rights organization, Access Living. 10 Minutes A Day and DIYabled opposed the bill as well. While we believe in the right to die in theory, we're not comfortable with the bill's language or how this might go down in practice. For example, insurers may deny many, if not all pain treatments from their...
