Post Tagged with: "disability"

Return to Sender: How Sexual Politics Continue to Oppress People with Disabilities

Return to Sender: How Sexual Politics Continue to Oppress People with Disabilities

August 4, 2014 at 8:45 am 1 comment

by Matthew P. Cavedon: Baby Gammy is lucky to be alive. An Australian couple paid his mother $15,000 to be their surrogate. Gammy’s twin sister, born healthy, was welcomed by the couple. Gammy, born with an extra chromosome and, thus, Down’s Syndrome, was not. On finding out his condition, the […]

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The Real Tragedy of Down Syndrome, Abortion

The Real Tragedy of Down Syndrome, Abortion

August 9, 2013 at 8:25 am 2 comments

by Laura Giunta: Abortion has become a tool for eugenics, aiming to eradicate the disabled population.  This is especially true with respect to Down syndrome, a genetic disorder, which now can be detected through prenatal testing and thus aborted during pregnancy.  Indeed, a vast majority of women diagnosed with a […]

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