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Jan 6, 20224 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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Dec 25, 20218 min read

On (Ine)Quality of Life

by Kristina Artuković — People with a health condition, chronic illness or disability — even people like me, who have a child with a...

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Dec 16, 20213 min read

Assisted Suicide Capsule Receives Legal Clearance in Switzerland

by Judith Evans — Swiss advocates of assisted suicide are hailing a new invention: a 3-D printed suicide capsule known as “Sarco” — short...

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Dec 13, 20213 min read

Eugenics: How Did It Start?

by Christy Yao Pelliccioni — Dr. Laura Rivard of the University of San Diego, founder of Genetics Generation, makes an excellent point in...

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Nov 9, 20213 min read

Harmful Assisted Suicide Bill Progresses to Committee Stage After Fierce Debate in UK House of Lords

by Sophie Trist — This recent Halloween season has been an unusually scary one. There’s not much scarier for disabled and chronically ill...

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Nov 5, 20213 min read

Colombia Clinic Cancels Woman’s Legal Euthanasia

by Judith Evans — In 2018, a Colombian woman named Martha Liria Sepulveda received a frightening diagnosis: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...

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Aug 17, 20214 min read

Disability is Not a Crime: Preventing Police Violence Towards People with Mental Illness

by Judith Evans — In a year marked by reports of police brutality, two names stood out for mental health advocates in 2020: Daniel Prude...

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May 6, 20214 min read

Stop Unethical Aborted Fetal Tissue Research at Pitt

Warning: this post includes disturbing images and descriptions of abuse of unborn children’s bodies. by Herb Geraghty — The University of...

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Apr 11, 20213 min read

Legalized Assisted Suicide Is Deeply Harmful for People with Disabilities

by Sophie Trist — Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is deeply harmful to people with disabilities. Many “right to die” proponents scoff at...

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Mar 21, 20213 min read

“You Are Enough”: A Brilliant Children’s Book Inspired by a Girl with Down Syndrome

by Aimee Murphy — The bright and welcoming cover of You Are Enough immediately attracted me to it when I saw it shared on a children’s...

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Mar 19, 20219 min read

Vaccine Distribution Is Dangerously Impacted by Disability Discrimination

by Beth Fox, MPH — One year ago, I, like many other disabled or chronically ill individuals, began a strict home isolation protocol. I...

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Feb 28, 20215 min read

Disability Day of Mourning: The Need to Mourn and Celebrate the Worth of Disabled Lives

by Sophie Trist — Every year on March 1 the Autistic Self-advocacy Network (ASAN) and other disability organizations hold vigils all...

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Nov 16, 20203 min read

Joe Biden's Choice of Eugenicist for COVID-19 Task Force Is Ableist and Anti-Life

by Sophie Trist — COVID-19 disproportionately affects the elderly and people with disabilities. A June NPR study revealed that in...

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Nov 11, 20207 min read

Confusion And Controversy Over “Eugenic” Abortion in Poland

Recently, I had an interesting interaction on social media. I saw an Instagram post about telemedicine abortions, which are becoming incredi

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Nov 6, 20203 min read

Nonviolent De-escalation Techniques for Mental Health Emergencies

by Katherine Noble — Two Philadelphia police officers shot Walter Wallace Jr., a Black man, on October 26th. Wallace was medicated for...

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Oct 23, 20204 min read

The True Horrors of Your Favorite Halloween Movies

There are few things more quintessential to Halloween than horror movies.

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Sep 15, 20202 min read

Assisted Suicide Is Ableist

by Ashley Chilek — When an able-bodied person wants to harm themselves, we try to do everything in our power to stop them; we call it...

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Jun 30, 20202 min read

Michael Hickson's Life Mattered

by Herb Geraghty — Earlier this month Michael Hickson, a disabled black man, was killed in a Texas hospital when his doctors decided that...

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Feb 28, 20204 min read

In Sickness and In Health: Reflections on Death, Disability, and Caregiving

Every person, no matter their level of dependency, deserves to live free from violence.

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Feb 17, 20203 min read

Eugenics Is Not the Answer

America has an abhorrent, and often overlooked, history of eugenics practices. It has been present since the early 1900’s.

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