Every Christmas is a gift even, or especially, if you’re disabled
This Christmas will be remembered as the one when my husband Mark was in a wheelchair.
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Articles tagged Disability
Disability groups files legal challenge against Canada’s euthanasia regime
'Instead of providing the support and resources we need to live, our government is offering death,' a coalition of disability advocacy groups said in a press release about its legal challenge to Canada's euthanasia regime.
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Margo Naranjo wants her hydration, nutrition to continue: court document
Margo Naranjo, the brain-damaged woman at the heart of a Texas euthanasia battle, has reportedly indicated to home health workers and Adult Protective Services that she wants to continue receiving food, water, and medical treatment.
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Canadian author with cerebral palsy says nurse called her ‘selfish’ for refusing euthanasia
'They just view me as a drain on the medical system and that my healthcare dollars could be spent on an able-bodied person,' said 56-year-old Christian author Heather Hancock.
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Disabled Canadian man shares what it’s like to be pressured into euthanasia
On this week's episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon sits down with Roger Foley, a disabled Canadian man who has been offered Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) on multiple occasions.
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Disabled Canadian man says he has been offered euthanasia ‘multiple times’ while in the hospital
The 'traumatized' 49-year-old says he is 'being prevented from the resources that I need to live safely back at home' and has been told he can apply for assisted suicide.
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Bioethicists are speaking out against Iceland aborting almost every baby with Down syndrome
An Icelandic bioethicist admitted that her country does not offer many positive representations of life with Down syndrome, allowing people to remain fixed on negative, outdated stereotypes of what raising a child with a disability is like.
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Even Canadian leftists are starting to recognize the ‘dystopian’ nature of MAiD
Euthanasia based on poverty or disability is rarely based on personal choice and autonomy, it is horrifying, it is profane, it is the outcome of a failed social welfare system, and it is indefensible.
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St. John of God shows us how to love the unborn and elderly like Christ does
For decades, St. John of God lived a life of selfishness and hedonism, but with God’s grace and the example of St. John of Ávila, he learned what it means to see others through the eyes of God.
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Austrian doctor ordered to pay parents for failing to spot disability of baby they would’ve aborted
An Austrian doctor has been ordered to pay over €70,000 for failing to detect an unborn child's disability, leading to a lawsuit by the parents who claimed they would have aborted the baby if informed.
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