disability issues

The Rio Paralmypic medal table is quite different from the able bodied one. China are way out at the top, the UK is in a strong second place with Ukraine third. Ukraine are at war, yet they have still enabled many disabled Ukrainians to travel to and compete at the highest levels of sport. The...

Casey Anthony is back in the news. People (rightly, IMHO) villify her for killing her young daughter. Bonnie Liltz hasn't been in the news very much, so you might not be familiar with this story. In short, she murdered her disabled adopted adult daughter. There are similarities in these cases...

This came up on my other poll thread and I am curious. Question: would you date a disabled person? For the purposes of this poll assume the individual is someone you would be attracted to if they weren't disabled, they're mentally capable of consent, and capable of intimacy. There are of...

Thanks to a European Court of Justice judgement, obesity can now be considered a disability. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/18/obesity-can-be-disability-eu-court-rules So, I guess we can take it that the ECJ no longer believes in personal responsibility and if that an employee...

Funny thing is, wasn't I having a discussion with Avalon about just this type of mindset (in a totally different context mind you)? Disabled kids are god's punishment I don't mind these idiots having these views per se, but when they start making laws that can affect us all, we have a problem...

Can some of the Canadians here inform me if Canada has the equivalent to the Americans with Disabilities Act? I went riding Montreal's Metro last weekend, and noticed all the escalators down into the bowels of the earth, all ending in a flight of stairs, with no elevator in sight. (I admit to a...

Chrissy Rivera, a New Jersey woman, reported in a blog post that a doctor and social worker at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia told her and her husband that their daughter Amelia would not be given a life-saving kidney transplant, even if the kidney were donated by a relative as they had...

Are religious organizations able to exempt themselves from having their actions challenged in court? A parochial school teacher was fired, she says, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. She threatened to file a government complaint, and got canned. Why? Ostensibly she...

A California Federal Judge has ceritfied a class action lawsuit against Target on the grounds that Target's website is not accessable by the blind and therefore violates laws to prevent discrimination against the handicapped...