Patients Rights Action Fund (PRAF)

They are a leading national, non-partisan single-issue organization that protects the rights of patients, people with disabilities, older adults, and other historically underrepresented groups from deadly harm and discrimination inherent in assisted suicide laws.

Expanding Assisted Suicide, Redefining Death

Proponents of assisted suicide made grandiose promises that safeguards written into their legislation would protect the innocent and securely limit those who opt for legal death by drugs.

The safeguards are dropping like flies.

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Pro-Life Strategies: Make Your Will Known

In the minds of most people, ordinary care for an ailing loved one would include food and water. It does not.

Families facing a medical crisis are ill equipped to deal with legal definitions of care. The time to make decisions about organ donation and extent of care is before the need arises. The person best suited to make those decisions is the one most affected: the potential patient.

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Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Timeline

Life Issues Institute researched the world and found that 14 countries, including eleven states and territories within the United States, have passed laws permitting varying degrees of euthanasia or assisted suicide. Using this information we created our latest educational resource, a global timeline on euthanasia and assisted suicide.

What we discovered is that without fail, once these deadly practices are legalized there is always a push for expansion.

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Matt Vallière is the Executive Director of the Patients Rights Action Fund (PRAF), a
national, secular, non-partisan leader defending the rights of patients, people with disabilities, our elders, and the poor from the threat of legalized assisted suicide. PRAF is a 501(c)(4) not for profit corporation. He has owned and managed various private businesses and worked both professionally and voluntarily for non-profit causes, most currently with PRAF since 2014. He proudly serves as a volunteer emergency medical services first responder. As an experienced caregiver to people with lifethreatening disabilities, Mr. Vallière is a tireless advocate for the rights of patients and people with disabilities, both in the medical setting and the public square. He has been published in media outlets such as the Washington Post, The Hill, Real Clear Politics, and Newsweek, among others.