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		<title>Massachusetts families fight to keep institution open</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/05/23/massachusetts-fernald-29644/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 00:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Massachusetts approaches a June 30 target for closing the Fernald Developmental Center in Waltham, families of its 89 residents are fighting to keep the 200-acre institution open. Here&#8217;s a sampling of some recent coverage: They fight for Fernald &#8212; Waltham, MA, Daily News Tribune. Nearly 50 people gathered to picket at the Fernald Developmental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vicky Solomonson, 49; Humphrey&#8217;s grandchild had DS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 04:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Down syndrome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [Minneapolis-St. Paul] Star Tribune: Vicky Solomonson, a young woman whose family rejected doctors&#8217; recommendations that she be institutionalized following a diagnosis of Down syndrome, has died. She was credited with advancing disability rights through the work of her grandfather, Minnesota senator and then Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. Solomonson, 49, had also been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advocates urge &#8216;disability rights champion&#8217; on high court</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/29/disability-rights-champion-court-29405/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law is calling on President Obama to name a Supreme Court nominee who will uphold the rights of people with disabilities. From the center&#8217;s website: Despite Congress&#8217;s bipartisan passage in 2008 of the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) to restore the law&#8217;s broad reach after years of hostile court rulings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ne&#8217;eman nomination blocked; Autism views spark controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/29/neeman-nomination-blocked-28934/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: A parliamentary hold has been placed on the nomination of autism self-advocate Ari Ne&#8217;eman to the National Council on Disability amid a growing controversy about his views. President Obama&#8217;s seven other nominees to the council were confirmed by the Senate this month. Ne&#8217;eman, 22, has a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shriver stresses humanity of people with intellectual disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/19/shriver-humanity-28779/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Washington Post profile of Tim Shriver, writer Manuel Roig-Franzia examines the Special Olympics chairman&#8217;s campaign to discourage language that makes fun at the expense of people with intellectual disabilities. Shriver has received apologies from President Obama, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and Bill O&#8217;Reilly (sort of) for &#8220;colloquial jabs about &#8216;retards&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This time, a &#8216;Family Guy&#8217; actor agrees with Palin</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/25/family-guy-actor-agrees-with-palin-28593/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Down syndrome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lisa de Moraes in the Washington Post: Actor Patrick Warburton, who voices a character in &#8220;Family Guy,&#8221; told TV critics Wednesday that he objected to the show&#8217;s recent gag about Sarah Palin. &#8220;I know it&#8217;s satire but, personally, that [joke] bothered me too,&#8221; Warburton said on a conference call to promote his other primetime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disability rights leaders skeptical of Palin</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/25/rights-leaders-skeptical-28587/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dana Goldstein at thedailybeast.com: As Sarah Palin attempts to position herself as a national spokesperson on issues related to disability, disability rights leaders say they view her with skepticism. Palin, they say, is out of step or silent on most of their policy priorities. But some still hold out hope that she may yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia delegate fights controversy over abortion remarks</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/25/virginia-delegate-fights-28578/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Says VCU students twisted his meaning; VCU stands by its story Recordings of Marshall&#8217;s remarks posted on the Web From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Washington Post, WTKR Norfolk, Virginia Commonwealth University, AP/[Newport News] Daily Press: Virginia Del. Bob Marshall turned aside calls for his resignation Wednesday and attempted to distance himself from recorded remarks that have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Connecticut institution should be closed</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/23/southbury-training-school-28529/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Our leaders fail the neediest&#8217; Columnist Rick Green, writing in the Hartford Courant, says Connecticut&#8217;s leaders have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a legal fight to keep the Southbury Training School open, even though they know the facility violates federal discrimination law. &#8220;We will pay dearly for this,&#8221; he writes. A legal challenge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legislator apologizes, says abortion remark was misconstrued</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/23/legislator-apologizes-28485/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Washington Post, [Norfolk] Virginian-Pilot: As detractors organized an online petition calling for his resignation, Republican Virginia state delegate Bob Marshall apologized for public remarks suggesting that women who have abortions risk having children with disabilities as a punishment from God. &#8220;The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion who [...]]]></description>
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