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		<title>Obit: Paul Steven Miller, law professor and disability advocate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: After graduating at the top of his class at Harvard Law School in the 1980s, Paul Steven Miller was rejected by more than 40 law firms before he was able to find work. The reason: Miller was born with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism. One hiring partner told him that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Airways ejects man with wheelchair: &#8216;Too disabled to fly&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 06:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From ABC News, CNN, Grand Rapids [MI] Press: Johnnie Tuitel, a motivational speaker who uses a wheelchair, says he was forced to leave a recent US Airways flight before takeoff because flight personnel had decided that he was &#8220;too disabled to fly.&#8221; Tuitel, who has cerebral palsy, said the incident occurred last month while he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia settles ADA suit over confinement of people with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/19/georgia-ada-settlement-30335/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 03:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AP/New York Times: In a decision that is being hailed as a historic step toward enforcing the rights of people with disabilities, the state of Georgia has reached an agreement with the Justice Department to move many people with mental illness or developmental disabilities out of state psychiatric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion of surrogate fetus with DS sparks ethics debate</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/14/surrogate-abortio-30294/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doctor says Canadian bio-parents demanded termination; Surrogate mom refused, then relented &#8216;Should the rules of commerce apply to the creation of children?&#8217; From the Vancouver Sun, [UK] Daily Mail: A Canadian surrogate mother reluctantly terminated her pregnancy at the insistence of the fetus&#8217; biological parents after it was learned that the fetus had an elevated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autism debate goes to high court</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/12/autism-supreme-court-30169/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today about whether vaccine manufacturers should be protected from virtually all product liability lawsuits. At the heart of the case, says the New York Times, is the safety of the vaccines themselves. The case could have implications for hundreds of lawsuits alleging a connection between vaccines and autism. See [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President signs technology access measure</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/11/technology-access-measure-30177/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From AP on MSNBC, with video; the Digital Journal; Wireless Week; American Foundation for the Blind release in the Kansas City Star: President Obama has signed legislation that requires smart phones, television programs and other modern communications technologies to be made accessible to people who have impaired vision or hearing. The legislation was hailed as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama honors girl who inspired &#8216;Rosa&#8217;s law&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/11/obama-honors-girl-who-inspired-rosas-law-30168/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama celebrated the signing of &#8220;Rosa&#8217;s Law&#8221; at an East Room ceremony honoring of 9-year-old Rosa Marcellino, the Maryland girl with Down syndrome who was its inspiration. The law ends the use of the terms &#8220;mental retardation&#8221; and &#8220;mentally retarded&#8221; in federal health, education and labor laws. &#8220;It&#8217;s so inspiring to have her here,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President signs &#8216;Rosa&#8217;s law&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/07/president-signs-rosas-law-30157/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strikes term &#8216;mentally retarded&#8217; from federal statutes Chicago Sun-Times, Southern Maryland Online The measure will eliminate the terms &#8220;mental retardation&#8221; and &#8220;mentally retarded&#8221; from federal education, health and labor laws. &#8220;This law takes â€˜mentally retarded&#8217; out of the federal law books and replaces it with â€˜intellectual disability,&#8217; a change that will have a positive effect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House OKs &#8216;Rosa&#8217;s Law&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/09/23/house-oks-rosas-law-30137/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would eliminate term &#8216;mentally retarded&#8217; from federal law Press releases from Sen. Barbara Mikulski, The ARC of the United States: Acting unanimously, the House of Representatives last night approved a bill to remove the terms &#8220;mentally retarded&#8221; and &#8220;mental retardation&#8221; from federal education, health and labor laws. The measure, called &#8220;Rosas&#8217; Law&#8221; in honor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Jersey law changes references to people with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/08/17/new-jersey-law-change-30030/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Thegovmonitor.com: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie this week signed legislation that removes outdated and demeaning descriptions of people with disabilities from state law and regulation. The bill eliminates such terms as &#8220;mentally retarded&#8221; and &#8220;feeble-minded,&#8221; which are considered offensive by many. Replacing them are terms like &#8220;intellectual disability&#8221; and &#8220;developmental disability.&#8221; The new law [...]]]></description>
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