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Disability
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Image Source: Shutterstock A same-sex couple in Canada has launched a lawsuit against the surrogate mother who carried their son after she refused their request to abort the baby when doctors identified a cleft lip and a possible heart defect during pregnancy. The case, filed in Ontario Superior Court, has…
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Image Source: X/@ProfJoannaHowe | Demonstrators outside of the SA Parliament South Australia’s parliament is once again set to debate late-term abortion laws, after independent upper house MP Sarah Game introduced a new bill seeking to restrict abortions after 25 weeks. The proposed legislation, introduced on Wednesday, would remove provisions in…
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In the UK, 90% of babies diagnosed with Down’s syndrome in the womb are aborted. What do we think this more efficient test will be used for?
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The law was passed to encourage larger families at a time when population growth had fallen to a mere 0.7 per cent.
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Are we poised to turn science fiction into reality? The evil ‘science’ of eugenics has recently reared its ugly head in a particularly troubling way.
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This is a move which can only be seen as a direct attack on the value of disabled lives.
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A UN committee has called for the repeal of assisted suicide in Canada for people who have no terminal illnesses, especially the disabled which, a report concluded, is discriminatory towards disability. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Committee published its report last month and recommended…
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His message to Scots comes as Scotland considers similar legislation: “I believe my own experience is a cautionary tale of how well-intended laws go very wrong.”
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Dr Griffiths was one of the few disability experts to appear before the ongoing committee hearing into Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s Bill.