UK Court Orders Forced Abortion On Woman

Oct 16, 2019 by

from SPUC: UK doctors are to perform a surgical abortion on a woman with learning difficulties without her consent, a Court of Protection judge has ruled. The Court of Protection in London heard how an unidentified woman in her twenties,...

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US study says assisted suicide laws rife with dangers to people with disabilities

Oct 13, 2019 by

by Michael Cook, Bio Edge: The National Council on Disability (NCD) has released a scathing analysis of the effect of assisted suicide laws in the United States on people with disabilities. It finds that safeguards are ineffective and...

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Parents of kids with Down’s syndrome are the lucky few

Oct 12, 2019 by

by Sally Phillips, Metro: This week a mother successfully sued the NHS in the high court for failing to identify that her baby had Down’s syndrome. Ms Mordel said it would have been better if her baby did not exist than ‘suffer as...

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Abortion in Northern Ireland: the disabled speak out

Oct 2, 2019 by

by Archbishop Cranmer: On 10th July 2019, the UK Parliament voted in favour of an amendment to the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill which would liberalise abortion legalisation in Northern Ireland. The Act, including this...

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The tragedy of Vincent Lambert

May 30, 2019 by

by Kevin Yuill, spiked: Vincent Lambert has become central to the right-to-die debate in France. His face has appeared in French media over the past six years as a symbol of a passionate argument over his future and the future of...

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France divided over fate of brain-damaged man

May 27, 2019 by

by Michael Cook, MercatorNet: The ‘affaire Vincent Lambert’ is a test of the nation’s commitment to the disabled. Last week, in a case which has divided France as Terri Schiavo’s did in the US, a Frenchman who has been...

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