ableism | Rehumanize

Aug 284 min read

Review of In Hospital Environments: Essays on Illness and Philosophy

by Alexander Pyles — Lots of ink has been spilled about persons with disabilities and the harms of ableism, but perhaps not enough has...

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Mar 204 min read

"All My Son Knew Was Love": Parents Who Carry Terminally Ill Children to Term

by Sarah Terzo — Pro-abortion activists often say that when someone is pregnant with a baby expected to die, abortion is the...

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Dec 14, 20234 min read

Keep Ableism Out of Your Conversations about Prenatal Testing

by Sophie Trist — The New York Times rang in the new year by releasing its findings that many popular prenatal genetic tests are...

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Jul 3, 20236 min read

Unforgettable Hours of Love

by Grattan Brown, STD, and Susan Bane, MD — Fifty years of Roe v. Wade have turned induced abortion into a false standard of care for...

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Jun 6, 20235 min read

Euthanasia in Canada: The Shifting Language of Deception and MAiD’s Eugenicist Outcomes

by Jordan Kennedy — In 1999, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a pathologist from just outside Detroit, Michigan, rose to international fame following...

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Jun 6, 20234 min read

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

by Briana Grzybowski — Jean Dominique Bauby was at the top of his game in the mid-1990s. As editor-in-chief of Elle magazine, he was one...

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May 28, 20234 min read

Love in Extreme Hardship

by Grattan Brown, STD, and Michael Egnor, M.D. — Caring for severely disabled kids takes heroic efforts, especially on the part of the...

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Apr 21, 20233 min read

Increasing Technology and the Pressure to Abort

by Grattan Brown, STD, and Elizabeth Nelson, MD — Dr. Elizabeth Nelson and her mother were both physicians. Between the two of them, they...

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Dec 19, 20223 min read

Meincke's Moment

by Jack Champagne — As human beings, we instinctively understand the violence of war. After all, war carries with it by its very nature...

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Sep 12, 20224 min read

Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying Program is Ableist, Classist, and Coercive

by Sophie Trist — A 2015 ruling by the Canadian Supreme Court in the case of Carter v. Canada paved the way for the country to legalize...

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Jul 23, 20224 min read

Killing Grga: A Late-Term Abortion Case that Shook Croatia

by Kristina Artuković — This past April, Mirela, a 39-year-old yoga instructor from Croatia, was told her unborn child Grga had a brain...

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May 28, 20225 min read

Terminal Discrimination

by Jack Champagne — In 1998, Dr. Gregor Wolbring, then Bioethics Advisor to the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD), wrote and...

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May 19, 20223 min read

Death at Your Fingertips

by Jack Champagne — Vermont has signed bill S.74, amending the law euphemistically referred to as the Patient Choice and Control at End...

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May 13, 20223 min read

Justice for the Five: The Tales of Death and Disability

by Kristina Artuković — A month ago, when the images of five late-term babies aborted in the Washington Surgi-Clinic were published,...

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Mar 8, 20224 min read

Twice Abandoned: The Disabled and Institutionalized in the Russo-Ukrainian War

by Kristina Artuković — During the 2014 war in Ukraine, Disability Rights International (DRI) conducted an investigation into the...

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Feb 15, 20223 min read

"Gattaca" Predicts the Dangers of Gene Editing

by Christy Yao Pelliccioni — Warning: Spoilers. I have long heard the 1997 film Gattaca hailed as a pro-life movie. I decided to check it...

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Feb 4, 20225 min read

The Most Popular Therapy for Autism Might Also Be the Most Harmful

by Kristina Artuković — I first heard about ABA therapy two years ago in a support group for parents of children with Down syndrome. ABA...

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Jan 18, 20226 min read

Prenatal Testing, Disabilities, and A Cause for Hope

by Christy Yao Pelliccioni — It was a hot day in July when I was finally over the worst of my “morning” (i.e., all the time) sickness,...

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Jan 18, 20223 min read

Vulnerable Canadians Deserve Better Care, Not Death

by Katherine Noble — Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program is one of the largest state-sanctioned euthanization programs....

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Jan 18, 20223 min read

#MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy: Disability Rights Activists Push Back Against CDC Director’s Ableist Remark

by Sophie Trist — During a recent video interview, CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said, “The overwhelming number of deaths — over 75%...

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