Action Alert: Meet with your Federal Legislators to #StoptheShock
Congress’ failure to end the use of electric shock torture at the Judge Rotenberg Center earlier this year does not mark the end of the…
November 8, 2022
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🎃 ASAN October Update 🎃
ASAN October Newsletter Dear friends, What’s scarier than ghosts and ghouls? Discriminatory health care policies! This October, we’ve been hard at work fighting for…
October 31, 2022
🍂 ASAN September Update 🍂
ASAN September Newsletter Dear friends, As the days grow shorter and the weather turns cold, our work is only heating up! Here’s what we’ve…
September 30, 2022
ASAN Endorses New York Bill to Stop The Shock
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 4th, 2022 CONTACT: media@autisticadvocacy.org This press release is available as a PDF here. WASHINGTON, DC – ASAN endorses today’s introduction of…
May 4, 2022
ASAN Statement on DC Circuit’s Denial of Rehearing in Judge Rotenberg Center Case
Today, ASAN learned that the DC Circuit Court refused to reconsider a court ruling that allows the Judge Rotenberg Center to continue using skin shocks…
December 6, 2021
Association for Behavior Analysis International Endorses Torture
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network strongly condemns the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) for their decision to feature the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) at…
May 23, 2019
ASAN, 243 Other Orgs Urge FDA to #StopTheShock
This letter is available as a PDF here. March 6th, 2019 Alex M. Azar II Secretary U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Scott GottliebCommissionerFood…
March 6, 2019
ASAN meets with FDA to #StopTheShock
Yesterday, ASAN and a coalition of disability rights organizations met with Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, head of the FDA’s Center for Radiological Health and Medical Devices….
June 5, 2018
ASAN Letter to FDA on Banning Electric Shock Devices
You can download this letter as a PDF here. Alex M. Azar II Secretary U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Scott Gottlieb Commissioner Food…
April 23, 2018
#StopTheShock at the Judge Rotenberg Center
People with disabilities are being tortured at the JRC by electric shock devices known as Gradual Electronic Decelerators (GED). The FDA has had a final rule to…
April 11, 2018
ASAN Comments on FDA’s Proposed Ban of Electric Shock Devices
This letter is available as a PDF here and in the embedded issuu reader here. Leslie Kux Associate Commissioner for Policy Division of Dockets Management…
June 20, 2016
Statement on FDA Proposed Rule Banning Use of Electric Shock Devices
On April 22, 2016, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) issued the following statement on the proposed FDA rule to ban the use of electric…
April 22, 2016