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The Pro-Choicers’ Coded Defense of Ableism

March 11, 2021

Much of the conversation about abortion, and especially about late term abortion, is really a coded defense of ableism, writes a mother who's faced a poor prenatal diagnosis and said, "No," to her doctors' advice that she abort her child.

The Pro-Life Movement Goes Cheap

February 03, 2021

Any resemblance between the ends of Catholic social teaching and the priorities of the existing pro-life movement is imaginary. Nowhere is this disjunction clearer than in the pro-life movement’s regard — or lack thereof — of the intellectually and developmentally disabled.

Court ruling ‘puts lives of severely disabled at risk’

December 22, 2016

A court has approved the withdrawal of fluids from a man in a stable but minimally conscious state