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		<title>Australian state sees tripling of DS-related abortions</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/07/29/australia-ds-related-abortions-29941/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Melbourne, Australia, Herald Sun: Health Department officials in the Australian state of Victoria report that the number of women who terminated their pregnancies after receiving a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome almost tripled in the decade ending in 2006. Government figures showed 146 abortions for Down syndrome in 2006, including five late term [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adoptive mom returns boy to Russia &#8212; alone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Says authorities failed to disclose &#8216;psychopathic issues/behaviors&#8217; From the [UK] Daily Mail, AP/Washington Post, [UK] Telegraph: Russia&#8217;s foreign minister is urging an end to all U.S. adoptions after a a seven-year-old Siberian boy adopted by an American family was sent back to Moscow alone because his U.S. mother didn&#8217;t want him any more. The adoptive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google execs convicted over bullying video</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/24/google-execs-convicted-28566/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Company sees threat to free speech on the Internet From Reuters/New York Times, AP/Forbes.com, CNN: A judge in Milan has found three Google executives guilty of criminal privacy violation charges for allowing a cellphone video of the bullying of an Italian youth to be displayed on a company website in 2006. Press reports said the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family of girl with CP to Canada: Let us stay</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/24/canada-immigration-cp-28549/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cerebral palsy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Montreal Gazette, CBC News: A French family is making a public appeal to stay in Canada on humanitarian grounds after their application for permanent residency was rejected because their seven-year-old daughter has cerebral palsy. Rachel Barlagne was deemed &#8220;medically inadmissable&#8221; because her disability would pose an &#8220;excessive burden&#8221; on the state. According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain apologizes to Thalidomide survivors</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/01/15/thalidomide-apology-27185/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [UK] Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, CNN,  BBC: The British government offered  &#8220;sympathy&#8221; and &#8220;regret&#8221; yesterday to survivors of the Thalidomide scandal, and unveiled a government plan award more than £20 million in compensation to survivors. The statement, by Health Minister Mike O&#8217;Brien, comes more than 50 years after one of the worst public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: &#8216;Let family of girl with CP stay in Canada&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/01/05/editorial-immigration-cp-26946/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editors of the Montreal Gazette say the Canadian government has made a &#8220;bad mistake&#8221; and should reverse its decision to expel a family of French immigrants because one of their daughters has cerebral palsy. Computer software business owner David Barlagne and his wife brought their family from Paris to Montreal in 2005 after being told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK report: Special education system needs &#8216;radical overhaul&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/16/uk-special-education-overhaul-26705/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/16/uk-special-education-overhaul-26705/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [UK] Independent,&#160; BBC, [UK] Guardian, [UK] Times, [UK] Telegraph: An official report says the British government should &#8220;radically overhaul&#8221; the system for educating kids with disabilities, finding broad evidence that parents must battle to get appropriate support for their children. Among other findings, the inquiry said children with disabilities are eight times more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disability advocates: Close Canada institutions, improve job access</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/05/canada-institutions-jobs-26290/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Montreal Gazette, Toronto Star: Canada must end institutionalization of mentally disabled people and invest in their quality of life by improving access to jobs and social supports, says a report released to coincide with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The report by the Canadian Association for Community Living found that only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN recruits pop icon to improve life for those with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/04/stevie-wonder-3-26210/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/04/stevie-wonder-3-26210/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Associated Press/USA Today and Reuters: The United Nations has appointed musician Stevie Wonder as a United Nations Messenger of Peace. He will will focus on helping to improve life for the estimated 650 million people with disabilities &#8211; about 10% of the world&#8217;s population. UN representatives said the singer-songwriter, who has won 25 Grammy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expert: Schools could be swamped by new wave of disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/03/preemies-26158/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [UK] Independent: A leading British academic says enhanced survival rates for premature babies will cause a rapid surge in the number of students with disabilities, and could overwhelm the school system. Professor Barry Carpenter of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust said recent medical advances now make it possible for 80 percent of [...]]]></description>
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