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Aug 28, 20244 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 20, 20244 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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