Absolutely not. In this panel alone, of four representatives, two are from Dying With Dignity. Why am I the only representative from a disability-based org? Why is this the only day that we talk about disability rights when it impacts all of the sections that I have talked about. This shows that we are being left out on this committee and we have been left out systemically this entire time and throughout this process.
On top of that, the brief process of submitting only a thousand words leaves out disabled people who can't submit their thoughts in a written format, who don't have access to Internet or who would prefer to communicate using video. We asked this committee in writing what we could do to include other disabled people and we got no response.
This committee has shown no desire to reach out to disabled people, other than the people who are afraid of dying, but not people who are living with disabilities. It's a shame and it's been like that this entire time.