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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>ABC: Emanuel remark spotlights debate over language</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advocates equate &#8216;retarded&#8217; with hate speech Rahm Emanuel&#8217;s criticism of some liberal Democrats as &#8220;f &#8212; ing retarded&#8221; is &#8220;shining a spotlight on just how pervasive the R-word is in American conversation and how offensive it can be for millions of Americans,&#8221; reports Devin Dwyer on ABC News. Dwyer describes Emanuel&#8217;s comment as a &#8220;verbal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rwanda denies plan for involuntary sterilization of disabled</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/01/rwanda-sterilization-19476/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the BBC, Agence France Presse: An international rights advocacy group Wednesday urged Rwanda to revise a draft law that it said would require the sterilization of all people with intellectual disabilities. Human Rights Watch health and human rights director Joe Amon also charged that the measure would introduce compulsory HIV testing. &#8220;Provisions in the [...]]]></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>NC roadside marker recalls victims of eugenic sterilization</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/23/nc-marker-sterilization-19057/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Associated Press, [Raleigh] News &#38; Observer: North Carolina unveiled a roadside marker yesterday documenting the state&#8217;s decades-long eugenics program, which was  intended to keep thousands of people considered mentally disabled or otherwise genetically inferior from having children. &#8220;This does represent one of the ugly chapters in North Carolina&#8217;s history,&#8221; said the Rev. William [...]]]></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>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>Exhibit explores war on &#8216;genetically unfit&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/04/10/deadly-medicine-14052/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: Before they began the mass murder of Jews, the Nazis sterilized or killed hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities, who were considered mentally or physically defective. The intensive war against the &#8220;genetically unfit&#8221; is explored in &#8220;Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race,&#8221; a traveling exhibit from the U.S. Holocaust [...]]]></description>
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