The Struggle for Self-Definition and Autonomy

Activists who oppose euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide created this pin in 1999. T4, short for the address Tiergarten 4, was a Nazi work group of psychiatrists and physicians. During World War II, they were in charge of the killing of more than 100,000 people with disabilities.

Life with a disability often has been perceived as not worth living. As recently as 1983, fifteen states had laws that required the sterilization of people with disabilities.