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Editor’s note. This comes from SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. The Department of Health announced on Saturday that it has approved Non Invasive Pre-Natal Testing for use on the National Health Service which campaigners say will increase the...
By Sarah Terzo Glenn Little, president of the Disabled Persons Association, in Victoria Australia, who has cerebral palsy: “If I had been given the choice about whether I wanted to live with my brain damage or to be allowed to die, I would have chosen to live. I...
By Dave Andrusko A deranged former employee at a home for the mentally and physically disabled is accused of murdering 19 people—“nine men between the ages of 41 and 67 and 10 women between the ages of 19 and 70”--in a small town about 25 miles from Tokyo, according...
By Wesley J. Smith Social Darwinism/eugenics is making a comeback. In the UK, a local politician said that disabled children should be “put down” due to the expense of their care, and created a furor! From the This is Cornwall story: “A CORNWAL councillor has...
By Wesley J. Smith Archeologists working on an ancient site in Vietnam have found strong evidence that people there 4000 years ago cared well for people with disabilities. From the New York Times story: “Almost all the other skeletons at the site, south of Hanoi and...