The End of an Official Killing Program and Discovery of the Nazi Horror
Part 4 in the 10-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. The secret official and organized killing under Aktion T4 at the six killing centers continued. However, by late 1941 things were starting to fall apart. The general public were starting to realize what was ...
Horace Cooper: Black Community Can’t Afford to Stay Silent on Alzheimer’s
"Black Americans are more than twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as the general population. Yet stigma, fear and uncertainty about what lies ahead... often delay conversations about Alzheimer’s in Black communities," writes Horace Cooper, Project 21 chairman and a National Center senior fellow. In a commentary syndicated through ...
Life Unworthy of Life: A Tragic Reality – 1940s
Part 3 in the 10-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. Unofficial killing began in earnest before Aktion T4 was implemented. In the beginning, Germans with disabilities (including infants and children) were admitted to hospitals across the country for “treatment,” where they were killed in ...
Former Indiana Attorney General Adds Legal Firepower to Free Enterprise Project
Washington, D.C. -- Former Indiana Attorney General Curtis T. Hill, Jr., has been named Senior Advisor for the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project (FEP), adding significant legal muscle to FEP's powerhouse team of right-of-center shareholder activists. "Curtis is a tremendous addition to the Free Enterprise Project," ...
Sara Hart Weir: Kansas Is Proving What’s Possible with ABLE—Now Let’s Scale It
"For decades, public policy sent a quiet but devastating message to people with disabilities: Stay poor or lose life-saving benefits," writes Able Americans Senior Fellow Sara Hart Weir. Sara notes that more than a decade after the ABLE Act was signed into law, "most states are still underperforming." However, "Kansas ...
Setting the Stage for Life Unworthy of Life – The 1930s
Part 2 in the 10-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?” Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. Hitler had alluded to the Jewish Final Solution in Mein Kampf (1924), echoing many of the themes of Binding and Hoche’s 1920 ideas, including that the disabled were a state burden who could not contribute economically ...
Why Should They Live? The 1920s and 30s
Many people believe that eugenics is a long-discredited idea that has no part in modern civilized society. This is wildly inaccurate. Eugenics is alive and well in 2026, albeit in different ideological and legal clothing. What began in the late 1800s as a simple idea applied to the animal kingdom soon ...
Curtis Hill: Leftists’ Recycled Lies About The SAVE Act Are So Lazy They’re Racist
"If requiring identification is truly racist, why do we only hear the outrage when it regards elections?" asks Project 21 Ambassador Curtis T. Hill, Jr., former attorney general of Indiana, in a commentary published at The Federalist. "Black Americans drive cars, open bank accounts, apply for credit, buy cell phones, ...
Shareholders to Confront Starbucks on Covering Transition—but Not Detransition
Washington, D.C. – Starbucks shareholders will have the opportunity this week to weigh in on the company’s lack of health care coverage for gender detransition services, prompted by a proposal from the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP). “Starbucks says it will pay for an employee, ...
Mark Mostert: Rolling Back Progress in the Skies
"For the last 40 years, passengers with disabilities have repeatedly been disappointed in the lack of progress around air travel," writes Able Americans Senior Researcher Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D., in a commentary syndicated through InsideSources. While "the Air Carrier Access Act of 1986 (ACAA) prohibits commercial airlines from discriminating against ...
