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Disability Perspective Finally Gets Press
By Dave Reynolds,
Inclusion Daily Express
March 28, 2005
TAMPA, FLORIDA--If you knew
nothing about the disability perspective, and have followed the mainstream
media over the past ten days, you would get the impression that disability
rights groups just learned about Terri Schiavo.
It's as if Congress passed a law last week that could effects us tremendously, and we just now realized it.
The truth is, however, that advocates have been following Terri's fate for years. When Inclusion Daily Express started covering the story in August 2001 -- and Terri's feeding tube was scheduled to be removed for the first time -- a number of disability advocates had already been involved for a long time. In fact, St. Petersburg resident Rus Cooper-Dowda wrote a brief history at that time on the family's struggle over Terri's right to live.
This is not new to us, folks.
But as the mainstream media has run out of sensationalist steam and politicians to flog over Terri's rights in the past few days, disability rights advocates have been given more opportunities than ever to make their opinions known, and perhaps even be heard.
Over the weekend, I found more than 10 well-written opinion pieces from recognized leaders in the disability rights community, and three more pieces focusing on the disability rights perspective.
I also found a handful of articles that do not focus on the disability perspective or the "right-to-life" perspective.
Related:
"The 'Right' To Be Killed" by Rus Cooper-Dowda -- August
2001 (Inclusion Daily Express Archives)
http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/advocacy/schiavo.htm
DISABILITY PERSPECTIVES
"Schiavo Case: Disability
Rights Issue! Let People With Disabilities be Heard!" (Not Dead Yet)
http://www.notdeadyet.org/docs/weloveourtubes032605.html
"Why
Schiavo case worries the disabled" by William G. Stothers (Toronto
Star)
http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/05/red/0328c.htm
"Against
the killing of the light" by Ed Smith (CBC News)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_disabilitymatters/smith_20050322.html
"Articulating
our perspective to progressives" by Josie Byzek (Ragged Edge
Magazine)
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/focus/byzekprogressives.html
"Case
Extends: Story of Terri Schiavo is about all of us" by Kathy Faber-Langendoen
and Samuel Gorovitz (Syracuse Post-Standard)
http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/05/red/0328d.htm
"Death
watch: Terri Schiavo" (Ragged Edge Magazine)
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/life/deathwatchschiavo.html
Schiavo
Case a Chance for Journalists to Lead" by Kelly McBride (Poynter Ethics
Journal)
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=53&aid=80096
"Some
Facts in This Matter Of Starving Terri Schiavo to Death" by John Kelly (Ragged
Edge Magazine)
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/life/schiavokelly.html
"Terri
Schiavo: A Cause for the Left?" by Mark Polit (Common Dreams)
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0328-25.htm
"The
value of a life; Advocates for the disabled speak loudly about the Schiavo
case" by Jenifer L. McKim & Mayrav Saar (Orange County Register)
http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/05/red/0328e.htm
Rights
groups for disabled join in fight (Boston Globe)
http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/05/red/0328f.htm
Schiavo
issues prompt alliances (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/05/red/0328g.htm
Schiavo
Protesters Have Hearts on Sleeves and Anger on Signs (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/28/national/28cnd-schiavo.html
RELATED OPINION PIECES (Not necessarily from a disability
perspective):
"The Many Layers of the Terry Schiavo Controversy"
by Ralph Nader (Common Dreams)
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0328-24.htm
"Eating
disorder at root of Terri Schiavo case" (MSNBC)
http://msnbc.msn.com/ID/7318508/
"Schiavo
case's forgotten issue" (Bucks County Courier Times)
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-03272005-468517.html
"Terri
Schiavo and the Reality Gap" (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8070-2005Mar28.html
"Terri
Schiavo's Unstudied Life"(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64459-2005Mar24.html
"The
dehumanization of Terri Schiavo (and all of us)" (Catholic World
News)
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=36132
"Potomac
Fever" (Des Moines Register)
http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/05/red/0328h.htm
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