Category: People with disabilities

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …