Action Alert: ABAI endorses torture, and we can’t let them rest.
Torturers being allowed to present at a conference on the merits of their torture: that’s exactly what is happening at the ABAI conference this Thursday…
May 24, 2022
#StopTheShock
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
Action Alert: New York residents, help Stop The Shock!
For years, the disability community has put in the work to close the Judge Rotenberg Center. While much of our focus has been on the…
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
Action Alert: grassroots efforts to #StopTheShock
All of us were stunned and outraged when earlier this month, a federal appeals court overturned the FDA’s ban on electric shock devices used at…
July 23, 2021
ASAN Welcomes Ban of Electric Shock Torture
Today, the Food and Drug Administration released their final ban on the electric skin shock devices used to torture children and adults with disabilities at…
March 4, 2020
Day of Action to #StopTheShock
The Day of Action to #StopTheShock was held on April 24th, 2019, the five-year anniversary of an FDA hearing that found the use of GED…
April 29, 2019
Find out how YOU can #StopTheShock!
On April 24, 2014, the The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the government organization in the United States that decides what kinds of medical treatments…
April 3, 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