For a change, the mother of two low-functioning autistics argues against prenatal testing. It’s usually the “higher-functioning” autistics who advocate against prenatal testing and subsequent eugenic abortion – because, after all, if people get prenatal testing, they’re most likely to abort the child if found to have the condition being tested for -, highlighting the [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Low-Functioning Autistics’ Mom Opposes Prenatal Screening
Posted in Autism, Disability Advocacy, Pro-Life on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Developmentally Disabled Die becaue of Carelessness and Discrimination
Posted in Disability Advocacy, Health and Medical Care, Pro-Life on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, Mencap, a UK advocacy group, published a report detailing six cases in which developmentally disabled people died because of poor healthcare (PDF-file). The reasons for these people’s deaths ranged from the failure to insert a feeding tube after a Down Syndrome patient was left unable to swallow by a stroke – a practice [...]
Prenatal Testing for Autism Isn’t about Einstein
Posted in Autism, Disability Advocacy, Pro-Life on January 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last week, several articles were published in UK newspapers about the possibility of prenatal screening for autism, and the implications this possibility could have. In this article, Prof. Simon Baron-Cohen worries that eliminating autism through genetic screening and eugenic abortion would eliminate possible genius, too, complete with the inevitable Einstein-was-autistic nonsense. I’m annoyed by this, [...]
