Posts by Sacha
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to
Large-scale stereotypes create strange assumptions because so many people's real lives end up so far apart from the stories. Many of us learned that disability is the same as being sick for a long time. That's because we understand being ill, for a short time.
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to
She is such a great journalist.
After reading that, I wonder why we would bundle permanently disabled people with terminally ill people?
Why not legally permit early death only for the latter group? Would remove some of the obvious fishhooks.
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Hard News: Villainy and engagement, in reply to
is that his real twitter account?
apparently
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Guess that's why they choose relative unknowns from another country, so the backlash doesn't matter to them. #nasty
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Tweet shows even their fellow judge Stan Walker was more than a bit unimpressed.
Correction: not even deleted.
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to
I'm really saying it would be a nice problem to have. Not going to happen.
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to
And that is the connection the NZ Bioethics Council enforced during their 2008 ‘Who Gets Born’ pre-birth testing project. Disability stakeholders were assigned to the same subgroup as religious anti-abortionists.
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to
to the point where women will be compelled, even against their will, to carry a disabled foetus to term.
disabled people would have to be valued a heck of a lot more before that would ever happen.
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to
Thanks. When it is clear something will be done regardless, sometimes the best we can do is lessen the harm.
I'm pleased the committee chair included my recommendations in the final advice. Also managed some practical wins in the sparse consumer-oriented material created afterwards. However, lack of cohesive action or leadership around the issue was another pointer that we are not good enough yet at collective advocacy.
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to
We have different approaches to activism, yes. :)
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