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The 1967 Abortion Act allows dismissal of children with disabilities up to their date of birth. "People shouldn't be treated differently because of their disability." That feeling, recently voiced by a young woman with Down syndrome, is…

Express message service RAIPUR: Girija Jhalchatri, 35, belongs to the capital Chhattisgarh and is almost half disabled. She is not a front line worker and, unlike them, had the choice to stay at home. But she chose to…

The city said in its statement that it had "received an abundance of phone calls, emails and social media messages from constituents deeply concerned about the events" quoted in the lawsuit and the video footage."The footage is difficult to…

It's been a year since Ann Marie Smith died in appalling circumstances. Now another woman with a disability fears that she and others may suffer a similar fate. Important points:Ann Marie Smith died a year ago todayAnother woman with a…

Elena Coln is a 23-year-old woman with autism from Cape Cod who has a natural talent for crafting. During the pandemic, she added a bit of business acumen and opened her own online business on Etsy, selling bead and crochet…

For seven years Melanie was locked in a room with no daylight, often for more than 23 hours a day.On the walls, she is said to have "decorated the room with her own blood," and two lawyers who visited her and saw the conditions in which she…

"I think I would not have achieved so much in my life without my disability," said Doaa Qashlan, a Gaza university graduate and disability rights activist. Doaa, who was born with a physical disability and uses a wheelchair or…