Children With Disabilities: Where Will The Discrimination End?

Here’s an interesting commentary on whether discrimination against people with disabilities will stop with denying them organ transplants.

Is Denial of Life-Saving Care for Mentally Disabled Girl a Sign of Things to Come?

When Joe and Chrissy Rivera sat down with a physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to talk about their child’s medical prognosis, the couple had no inkling they were about to become part of a heated national debate.

Their 3-year-old, Amelia, has a rare genetic disorder, Wolf Hirschhorn syndrome, a condition caused by missing chromosomal material. It causes mental disabilities and may include other birth defects. Amelia’s kidneys were failing, and she would need a kidney transplant sometime within the next year or so.

As described in a blog post by Chrissy Rivera, a high-school English teacher, the doctor, who is not named, placed two sheets of paper on the conference table last month, with words highlighted in pink: “mentally retarded” on one and “brain damage” on the other.

According to Rivera, Amelia was being denied a transplant because of her mental disabilities. more

A Family's Journey With A Severely Disabled Child

Here's a very good piece about a family living with a child with severe disabilities. It's these kinds of children that the pro-deathers want to get rid of.

They said he had weeks to live

I suppose I seemed a bit too self-assured, strolling into the Family Surgery Waiting room as though I owned the place. I knew to wear warm clothes and comfortable shoes; it was always so frigid in there, and my boy's surgeries seemed to take longer than most. I'd often venture into the gray-white hallways of the hospital, loitering like a familiar vagabond, hoping a doctor or favorite nurse would see me and feign interest in a grain of conversation. Bizarrely, this place had become one of my few social outlets. more

Excellent UK Piece Linking Pro-Deather Ideas To Abuse Of People With Disabilities

An excellent piece out of the UK connecting the abuse of people with disabilities to the assisted suicide/euthanasia debate. I’ll post a link to Rosa Monckton’s movie as soon as I find it.

A terrible truth: it's natural to pick on the weak

Some time in the last 50 years, a collective decision was made to try to behave better towards the disabled and the mentally handicapped. Why was such a decision considered necessary? Rosa Monckton's powerful television programme helped give the answer.

Rosa, who herself has a 15‐year-old with Down's syndrome, filmed the lives of three families, and of one man living alone, who are persecuted because of their disability. Their suffering is caused not by the public authorities – though Rosa is critical of failures by those authorities to respond – but by neighbours. more

A Public Call For Killing Children With Disabilities

As I’ve noted here before, every now and then a pro-deather says what they actually mean – no spin, no euphemisms. Here an open call for killing children with disabilities or terminating their lives before they are born if a disability is uncovered. Yes, yes, it’s eugenics, but who seems to care these days?

Abortion and euthanasia: was Virginia Ironside right?

Virginia Ironside on Sunday Morning Live with her fellow guests.

Virginia Ironside woke the country up with a start on Sunday morning, when she appeared to be suggesting euthanasia for sick children. She told the BBC's rather bloodless spiritualism-lite programme Sunday Morning Live that if she had a child who was in terrible pain, she would hold a pillow over its head, as she would for any living creature that was suffering. more