Champion of Change. Her mere presence onstage or on camera is powerful in itself; after all, most of us struggle through the meagerest of disadvantages in order to carve out a life of satisfaction and meaning. But when she speaks, and one gets a sense of the richness of her intellect and spirit, she becomes something more, something like a living and breathing miracle.
The suit contends that EOLOA violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and even the U.S. Constitution itself. Under the EOLOA, they argue, only people with life-threatening disabilities who claim to want to die can legally procure an assisted suicide from the state of California. This, in their view, amounts not to mercy but to a covert form of eugenics.
In a video released by the group last week, Girma recounts the story of two young deaf twins named Mark and Eddy in Belgium who were losing their eyesight and were scared of becoming both blind and deaf. They went to their doctor and asked to die. The doctors agreed and gave them a lethal injection.