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		<title>Columnist: &#8216;Defending the &#8216;r-word&#8217; is the defense of bullies&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/14/columnist-r-word-bullies-28053/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson. Refuting an op-ed in support of the use of the word &#8220;retard,&#8221; Gerson says what is worst about the current public conversation is &#8220;a dismissive attitude toward the struggles of the disabled.&#8221; People who wish to understand the context of the current debate, Gerson says, would do well to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palin Facebook post: Administration health care plan is &#8216;evil&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/07/palin-health-care-evil-21539/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Jake Tapper on ABC&#8217;s &#8216;Political Punch&#8217; blog, AP: A statement posted on Sarah Palin&#8217;s Facebook page today labeled the administration&#8217;s health care plan as &#8220;evil,&#8221; and said it is designed to save money by withholding care from people with chronic illnesses and disabilities. An excerpt from the post, titled &#8220;Statement on the Current Health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Op-ed: &#8216;Abortion and the echo of eugenics&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/27/op-ed-abortion-eugenics-20745/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby writes says Justice Ginsberg&#8217;s recent comments about Roe v. Wade &#8220;are a reminder of the ease with which educated elites can decide that some people&#8217;s lives have no value.&#8221; Who might she be talking about, he asks: &#8220;Minorities? The poor? The handicapped?&#8221; Jacoby says Ginsburg&#8217;s words &#8220;recall the now-rarely-mentioned obsession [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: Compensation needed for eugenics victims</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/30/editorial-eugenics-victims-19391/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An editorial in the Asheville [NC] Citizen-Times says it&#8217;s time for North Carolina to compensate victims of a historic state-sponsored eugenics programs. The program sterilized some 7,600 people with disabilities and others who were deemed &#8220;unfit&#8221; to reproduce. A push to compensate eugenics victims began earlier this decade, and a bill in the N.C. House [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books: Buck v. Bell eugenics decision still stands</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/24/lombardo-buck-v-bell-19129/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Lombardo, author of &#8220;Three Generations, No Imbeciles,&#8221; has spent almost three decades uncovering the full story of the 1927 Buck v. Bell Supreme Court decision, writes USA Today. In 20th-century America, more than 30 states passed legislation supporting forced sterilization as part of a program of eugenics, the &#8220;science&#8221; of human improvement through controlled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Carolina to honor victims of forced sterilization</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/22/historic-marker-18938/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Winston-Salem Journal: North Carolina will unveil a historical marker on Monday to remember one of the state&#8217;s darkest chapters during the 20th century: the forced sterilization of more than 7,600 people under a state-sponsored eugenics program. Justified by junk science and enshrined in state law, the program mainly targeted poor people and residents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prospects bleak for NC eugenics reparations effort</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/17/nc-eugenics-program-18600/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Winston-Salem Journal and the Associated Press/WRAL: A North Carolina legislator says he will continue to fight for reparations for people who were sterilized by the state, even though his proposal has almost no chance of getting funded. A legislative committee has approved a measure that would pay $20,000 to each living victim of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writers: &#8216;Are we saying society would be better off without Down&#8217;s syndrome babies?&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/06/abortion-down-syndrome-babies-17922/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From DoubleX magazine (a spinoff of Slate, property of the Washington Post Company): Ayelet Waldman, author of &#8216;Bad Mother,&#8217; and Elizabeth Weil, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, conduct a five-part conversation about late-term abortions in the wake of George Tiller&#8217;s death. Both women have had late-term abortions following diagnoses of fetal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Column: Empathy on court could have averted mass sterilizations</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/04/sotomayor-empathy-17682/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik cites the historic Buck vs. Bell case to endorse Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s claim that a judge&#8217;s ethnic and socioeconomic background could enhance their interpretation of the law and ability to empathize. The 1927 case upheld a Virginia law allowing the forced sterilization of people deemed &#8220;defectives&#8221; and &#8220;manifestly unfit.&#8221; Hiltzik [...]]]></description>
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		<title>He worries: Could genetic testing eliminate people with autism?</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/05/18/ari-neeman-16663/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 16:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newsweek magazine profiles Ari Ne&#8217;eman, the 21-year-year-old founder of the nonprofit Autistic Self-Advocacy Network. Ne&#8217;eman is a master networker who wants to convince the world that autism is not a medical mystery that needs to be cured, but rather a type of &#8220;neurodiversity&#8221; that should be accepted by society. Ne&#8217;eman, who has Asperger&#8217;s syndrome, is [...]]]></description>
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