Massachusetts politician resigns due to backlash from remarks about children with ‘defects’

By Cassy Fiano-Chesser  A Massachusetts politician who said abortion is needed so babies with disabilities wouldn’t be born — and become drains on the system — was voted to remain as chair of the local Democratic party. But after backlash, he resigned. Last month, Michael Hugo spoke in a city council meeting about keeping pregnancy resource …

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Doctors thought this little football fan would die 30 minutes after birth, but he’s thriving six years on

By Right to Life UK A prematurely-born Lincoln City Football Club fan has received a surprise makeover of his bedroom after a charity decorated it in homage to his team. Young Oscar from Lincoln was born prematurely and suffered brain damage as a result. Doctors thought it unlikely that he would live for more than …

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Teaching the brains of paralyzed people to communicate

By Michael Cook One of the most terrifying accidents imaginable is to become paralyzed and to be unable to speak. Fortunately, scientists are gradually learning how to interpret signals from the brain and translate them into letters, words, and eventually speech. In a milestone for brain-computer interfaces (BCI), researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley have shown …

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Teaching the brains of paralysed people to communicate

By Michael Cook  One of the most terrifying accidents imaginable is to become paralysed and to be unable to speak. Fortunately, scientists are gradually learning how to interpret signals from the brain and translate them into letters, words, and eventually speech. In a milestone for brain-computer interfaces (BCI), researchers at UC San Francisco and UC …

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How the slaughter of 300,000 people with disabilities paved the way for the Holocaust of the Jews

By Dave Andrusko The perfect headline captures the gist of a story in language that blends immediacy with a spark of recognition. Enter “Before the ‘Final Solution’ There was a ‘Test Killing,” a story written by Kenny Fries that ran in the New York Times. NRL News Today has written (or reposted) many stories about how the …

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Teaching the brains of paralyzed people to communicate

By Michael Cook One of the most terrifying accidents imaginable is to become paralysed and to be unable to speak. Fortunately, scientists are gradually learning how to interpret signals from the brain and translate them into letters, words, and eventually speech. In a milestone for brain-computer interfaces (BCI), researchers at UC San Francisco and UC …

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Actress Ali Stroker uses pregnancy to advocate for those with disabilities

By Bridget Sielicki  Actress Ali Stroker, who is paralyzed from the chest down and uses a wheelchair, recently announced her first pregnancy with husband David Perlow. In an October interview with Self, Stroker spoke candidly about her desire to use her pregnancy to advocate for people with disabilities. Stroker has used a wheelchair ever since …

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Allowing babies with disabilities to live is not ‘grotesque’ or ‘cruel’

By Cassy Fiano-Chesser  The topic of abortion is currently one of the country’s most hot-button issues, and abortion advocates are doing all they can to argue that abortion is desperately needed. The latest example comes from a Virginia newspaper, which ran an editorial complaining that preborn children with disabilities will actually get to live if …

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New implant from Switzerland offers promise for the paralyzed 

By Biomed On a cold, snowy day last December, Michel Roccati – an Italian man who became paralyzed after a motorcycle accident four years earlier – took a walk in central Lausanne. His steps were halting and awkward and he was using a walker – but he was walking again. Together with two other paraplegic …

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Betty Friedan Calls Disabled Babies “Monsters”

By Sarah Terzo CNBC’s “Hardball” debate on partial birth abortion between Helen Alvare of the National Council of Catholic Bishops and Betty Friedan, well known pro-choice feminist: Friedan: “How lacking in compassion you are for women’s right to control their bodies! You want to force women to give birth to monsters! How terrible you are. …

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Austrian assisted suicide law for people with disabilities began on January 1

By Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition I reported a few weeks ago that the Austrian parliament had legalized assisted suicide for people with disabilities. The media have now published many articles about the Austrian assisted suicide law that went into effect on January 1. For example, an article by Bob Cronin for Newser.com reported …

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Mother hits back at cruel trolls who told her to “put down” son born with disability

By Right to Life UK A mother who has been flooded with horrific TikTok comments about her baby’s appearance has hit back at ‘trolls’ who told her to “put him out of his misery” and refer to their son as “it”. Amber, whose baby boy Derek was born with holoprosencephaly, shared a video on the …

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