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By Leslie Wolfgang Peer support and a local community’s embrace and acceptance enabled Jillian Ball to graduate high school and eloquently deliver this year’s commencement address to an audience of 500, including her classmates and their guests. Ball, a high school...
By Gayle Irwin Like many young married couples, Kansas residents Roy and Emily Schmeidler were excited to learn about Emily’s pregnancy, their first child. However, at the 20-week ultrasound, their excitement turned to fear and uncertainty. They courageously chose...
By Dave Andrusko When doctors give expectant parents terrible news, it takes great courage not to give in to counsel to abort. Such news—that “one of her babies had a rare brain condition and an abnormality with her esophagus”– was given to Marie Stockdale who was...
By Michael Cook A quadriplegic Quebec man has chosen assisted dying because of a bedsore he acquired when a hospital failed to give him a special pressure mattress. In January Normand Meunier went to the emergency section of a hospital in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, for a...
World Down Syndrome Day every March has a goal to highlight and promote the equal status of human beings with an extra chromosome.
When any category of human beings, born or unborn, is “disvalued,” their lives will eventually be in imminent peril.
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By Michael Cook In ancient cultures some children were born with Down syndrome and other genetic disorders. But our prehistoric forebears treated them with great respect. This is the conclusion reached by an international team of researchers who studied the DNA...
By Meghan Schrader Meghan Schrader Editor’s note. Meghan is an autistic person who is an instructor at E4 Texas - University of Texas (Austin) and an EPC-USA board member. The coercion I experienced when I was enrolled in the Special Education system are what...
When any category of human beings, born or unborn, is “disvalued,” their lives will eventually be in imminent peril By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. This first ran in 2017, but I think you’ll agree its lessons about what happens when people are dehumanized is always...