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 14, 202111 min read
Vaccines and Abortion: Does ‘My Body, My Choice’ Work?
by Sarah Terzo — The argument “My body, my choice” has long been used to support abortion. More recently, it’s been used by those who...
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Nov 19, 20213 min read
Pregnancy and Eugenics
by Christy Yao Pelliccioni — Growing up pro-life, I heard the word “eugenics” tossed around often, even from an early age. I became...
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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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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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Feb 14, 20204 min read
All Against Ableism
A Lost Opportunity for Building Common Ground in the Pro-life and Disability Rights Movement by Sophie Trist -- I have wanted to...
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Aug 30, 20196 min read
How Disabled People (and Others) Can Be Activists from Home
by Sarah Terzo — When most people think of activism, they think of rallies, marches, and demonstrations. All of these are important and...
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Apr 30, 20192 min read
Hospital Threatens to Euthanize Woman Who Says “I Want to Live”
by Herb Geraghty — Catie Cassidy is a 64-year-old woman with lung cancer who needs oxygen to remain comfortable. According to the Diane...
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Apr 12, 20192 min read
On Down Syndrome and Abortion
by Stephanie Hauer — An in-utero diagnosis of Down syndrome is dangerous. If a doctor predicts that a baby has Down syndrome, that...
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