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Medicaid Work Requirements Put People With Disabilities at Risk
by Sarah Terzo — Despite some last-minute changes, the “One Big Beautiful Bill” would make deep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP (food stamps), and...
Jul 311 min read


Demand a Veto of Delaware Death Bill
by Jacqueline Harvey Abernathy, Ph.D. — UPDATE: DELAWARE GOVERNOR HAS VETOED ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL I am overjoyed to share that the...
Sep 20, 20243 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...
Aug 28, 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...
Mar 20, 20244 min read


Two Twin Stories of Growth Through Birth
by Grattan Brown, STD, and Susan Bane, MD — Here are the stories of two moms, each carrying one healthy twin and one twin with a...
Oct 31, 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...
Jul 3, 20236 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...
Jun 6, 20235 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...
May 28, 20234 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...
Apr 21, 20233 min read


Remembering Judy Heumann: Humanizing People with Disabilities and Telling Our Stories
by Sophie Trist — For most of human history, people with physical and mental disabilities have been killed, institutionalized,...
Mar 13, 20233 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...
Sep 12, 20224 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...
May 28, 20225 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...
May 19, 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,...
May 13, 20223 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...
Mar 8, 20224 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...
Feb 15, 20223 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...
Feb 4, 20225 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,...
Jan 18, 20226 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....
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%...
Jan 18, 20223 min read
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