By Paul Russell Executive Director, HOPE Australia Recently my wife, Anne, attended the Disability Ageing and Lifestyle Expo at the Adelaide Show Grounds. [Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia.] Anne's aim, as always, is to support our son,...
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Peter Singer is accused of “dog whistling” to people to commit violence against people with disabilities
By Dave Andrusko It was an extraordinary moment which you can watch at the news site of the Herald Sun, an Australian newspaper. As NRL News Today has detailed in dozens of posts, “Philosopher” Peter Singer is so infamous for dehumanizing statements so extreme that he...
Hate Crime: A killing rampage targets disabled people
By Diane Coleman - President, Not Dead Yet Editor’s note. This is excerpted from an article published July 27 on the Not Dead Yet website. Like so many in the disability community who have heard this news, we were horrified to begin the July 26th anniversary of the...
National Health Service (NHS) “Quality of Life” Kills Disabled Patients
By Wesley J. Smith I keep saying that if you want to see what the USA will look like in ten years under Obamacare, just look at the mess that calls itself the National Health Service in the UK. It isn’t that the NHS is socialized medicine per se–although that is part...
Current law supports eugenic abortion for disabled people
By Dr. Peters Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. I am one of nine joint signatories to a letter in the Daily...
Dehydrating the Cognitively Disabled To Death–The Never Ending Road
By Wesley J. Smith Editor’s note. This appeared on Wesley’s terrific blog over the weekend. We dehydrate profound cognitively disabled people to death in the USA–a death that comes slowly over about a two week period, often resulting in tissue cracking and even...
Abandoning the Disabled to Assisted Suicide in the UK
By Wesley J. Smith Editor’s note. This appeared on Wesley’s fine blog . The UK is falling off a vertical moral cliff on the assisted suicide issue. It remains a crime. But the Public Prosecutor of England and Wales has stated that if, after a complete investigation,...