Tag: Able Americans

"The decision to move the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) and the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) to the Department of Health and Human Services deserves an open mind—not immediate opposition," writes Able Americans Director Rachel Barkley in a commentary ...

Postscript to the 11-Part Series "Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?" As we have seen, the seeds of assisted suicide and euthanasia were sown decades ago. However, the pro-death movement can no longer hide behind altruism and good faith. It ...

"Why are so many Americans still being told that disability means a life without opportunity?" In a commentary published at The Hill, Collette Divitto — a woman with Down syndrome who also serves as the founder and CEO of Collettey’s ...

Part 11 in the 11-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. While the Netherlands and other European countries have descended slowly into the complete acceptance of medicalized killing, the slippery slope has become way steeper in Canada ...

Disability issues rarely command sustained attention in Washington, but a new poll suggests that voters across the political spectrum share more common ground on these issues than many policymakers may realize. To better understand public attitudes toward disability policy, Able ...

Part 10 in the 11-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. As we have seen throughout this series, “survival of the fittest” ideas and eugenics have historically shaped the modern global movements promoting assisted suicide and ...

Part 9 in the 11-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. As noted in Part 8, sentiment in the U.S. supporting assisted suicide and euthanasia grew exponentially after 2000. After the states of Oregon (1994) and ...

Waste, fraud, and abuse aren’t just budget problems—they’re human ones. By Leslie Ford, Sara Hart Weir, and Rachel Barkley Medicaid was created in 1965 to ensure that Americans who were poor, elderly, or disabled could access basic health care. But ...

Part 8 in the 11-Part Series "Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?" With assisted suicide and euthanasia now in the cultural mainstream, the pro-death lobby began to seize the moment. But which was the easier issue to move forward: assisted ...

On April 15th, Able Americans and its Coalition to Fix the Disability System gathered bipartisan policymakers, advocates, and disability community leaders at the Russell Senate Office Building to introduce ABLE 3.0 — the next generation of legislation expanding economic freedom ...