War Against The Weak – Blog

Over the next two decades, Russia’s population is expected to shrink by 17 million people. Faced with such statistics, advocates of people with disabilities say the country cannot afford to let prejudice stand in the way of caring for the country’s estimated 15 million registered “invalids” — adults and children suffering from a range of physical and mental ailments.

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(CNN) — When Annie Brown’s daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked Brown and her husband to sit down because he had some bad news to tell them: Isabel carried a gene that put her at risk for cystic fibrosis.

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MONTPELIER, Vt. — A Vermont legislative committee is taking up the question of whether the state should apologize for a 20th century program to sterilize citizens who were labeled feeble-minded or criminal.

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The lieutenant governor of South Carolina is taking heat for comparing people on government assistance to “stray animals” and saying the government should stop “feeding” welfare recipients who do not meet certain requirements because “they breed.”

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The 32 musicians from the Ohio State School for the Blind are the first all-blind group to march in the event. The marchers will be assisted by red-coated volunteers.

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(CNN) — As many as 10,000 albinos are in hiding in east Africa over fears that they will be dismembered and their body parts sold to witchdoctors, the Red Cross said in a recent report.

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“That there is a group within our society who give their children no hope nor opportunity from the moment that they are born,” the regional mayor wrote on the New Zealand radio website where he broadcasts as a talkback DJ.

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“Mr. Shockley is a notorious eugenicist whose pseudo-scientific racism called for the sterilization of people of color, persons with disabilities, Native Americans and the Jewish community,” Williams said. “America in the 21st century is going forward and this struggle in Auburn speaks to the forever vigilant readiness that conscious people in our democracy must maintain to protect the equal rights of all Americans.”

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