Tag Archive for: disability

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Current law supports eugenic abortion for disabled people – our letter in today’s Daily Telegraph

I am one of nine joint signatories to a letter in the Daily Telegraph today arguing that the success…

Life with locked-in syndrome – two more good news stories

The media has a tendency to focus on the negatives of profound disability by giving a hugely disproportionate…
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Families of children with significant disabilities indicate that their lives are enriched

Alex Schadenberg has this last week reported on a new study on children with trisomy 13 and 18 (Patau's…

Response to Daily Mail article reveals frightening attitudes to disability

There is an article in the Daily Mail today reporting on the incidence of abortion for Down’s syndrome…

Nursing Initiative: More tinkering at the edges?

In the face of a growing and alarming number of reports on poor standards of care for vulnerable patients…

Calls for action on care need to be heeded

When I wrote last July about how the findings of the Dilnot Commission into the funding of social care…
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New test highlights a stark paradox at the heart of prenatal testing

It is easy to garner opposition to prenatal testing and abortion of fetuses found with a duplicate…
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Abortion for Down’s Syndrome – tragic story, review of trends and personal reflections

There was a tragic story in the Daily Mail yesterday titled ‘Having an amnio test ruined my life’. It…
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New pre-natal screening test makes eliminating all people with genetic disease an achievable reality

‘Fetal DNA tests: Are we finally entering an era of eugenics?’ This was the question raised by Nancy…

Another poll from the Voluntary Euthanasia Society (aka DID) to grab headlines

The Voluntary Euthanasia Society, which renamed itself ‘Dignity in Dying’ in 2006 to disguise its…

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