http://www.waragainsttheweakmovie.com/blog Sat, 01 May 2010 15:11:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en WHEN her baby died soon after delivery, Gulbahor Zavidova, 28, a poorfarmer’s wife, longed to be pregnant again. After months of trying sheand her husband visited a doctor who told her she could never haveanother child because she had been sterilised...http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7107200.ece http://www.waragainsttheweakmovie.com/blog/2010/05/doctors-sterilise-uzbek-women-by-stealth-2/ WHEN her baby died soon after delivery, Gulbahor Zavidova, 28, a poor farmer’s wife, longed to be pregnant again. After months of trying she and her husband visited a doctor who told her she could never have another child because she had been sterilised...http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7107200.ece http://www.waragainsttheweakmovie.com/blog/2010/05/doctors-sterilise-uzbek-women-by-stealth/ Eugenics relied on a colossal misunderstanding of science and a savage misreading of history. William McDougall, a Harvard psychologist, believed that ignorance could be eradicated by encouraging people who could read to reproduce and forbidding those who couldn’t, as if this followed naturally from Mendel, with his peas, wrinkly and ... http://www.waragainsttheweakmovie.com/blog/2010/04/the-new-yorker-the-rise-of-marriage-therapy-and-other-dreams-of-human-betterment/ In 1968, at just 14 years old, Elaine became one of the thousands of victims of North Carolina's forced sterilization program. Quietly and efficiently operating from 1929 until 1974, the program's purpose was to weed out the "unfit" of society by stopping them from reproducing. Please see story here. http://www.waragainsttheweakmovie.com/blog/2010/03/n-c-eugenics-survivors-seek-justice/ RALEIGH – Secretary Britt Cobb today announced his appointment of Charmaine Fuller Cooper of Durham as Executive Director of the N.C. Justice for Victims of Sterilization Foundation, a new Division of the N.C. Department of Administration. She is scheduled to start on March 1. Please see story here. http://www.waragainsttheweakmovie.com/blog/2010/03/charmaine-fuller-cooper-named-executive-director-of-n-c-justice-for-victims-of-sterilization-foundation/ RICHMOND — State Delegate Bob Marshall of Manassas says disabled children are God's punishment to women who have aborted their first pregnancy. Please see story here. http://www.waragainsttheweakmovie.com/blog/2010/03/legislator-disabled-kids-are-gods-punishment/ South Carolina's Lt. Governor Andre Bauer, who is running for Governor of the state on the Republican ticket, said a bunch of monumentally stupid and ignorant things that would shock even the most cynical person at a luncheon the other day, like: Please see story here. http://www.waragainsttheweakmovie.com/blog/2010/03/south-carolina-lt-governor-andre-bauer-compares-his-states-poor-children-to-stray-animals/ It's a situation too agonizing to contemplate — a child dying and in pain. Now a small but provocative study suggests that doctors may be giving fatal morphine doses to a few children dying of cancer, to end their suffering at their parents' request. LINK http://www.waragainsttheweakmovie.com/blog/2010/03/euthanasia-in-chicago/ 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 ... http://www.waragainsttheweakmovie.com/blog/2010/02/russian-call-for-postnatal-abortion-sparks-furor-among-parents-of-disabled-2/ (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. Please see story here. http://www.waragainsttheweakmovie.com/blog/2010/02/the-government-has-your-babys-dna/