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advocacy

[ad-vuh-kuh-see] / ˈæd və kə si /


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Advocacy groups have reported cases where assisted dying has been offered to people with disabilities by healthcare or support workers without the patient requesting it themselves.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Homero López is an immigration attorney based in Louisiana who provides pro bono removal defense representation through his nonprofit, Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026

“From age 30 to a hypothetical age 90 actual death, that could increase the death benefit two or threefold,” says Weber, who is also treasurer of the Life Insurance Consumer Advocacy Center.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

Advocacy groups including Environmental Working Group, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Protect our Communities Foundation sued over the decision.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

I carried her in to his lordship my papa; and his Advocacy, being in a favourable stage of claret, was so good as to receive the pair of us.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Stevenson, Robert Louis




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