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Category Archives: Disability Rights and Neurodiversity
ACTION ALERT: Our rights and our lives are on the line – call your Senators!
Yesterday, Judge Kavanaugh was asked whether he would uphold the part of the Affordable Care Act that protects people with pre-existing conditions—and he refused to answer. For people with disabilities, these protections are a life-and-death issue. With our lives on the line, we refuse to take a gamble on...
Posted in Action, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity
Tagged action, action alert, action alerts, brett kavanaugh, judge brett kavanaugh, judge kavanaugh, kavanaugh, scotus, senate, supreme court
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Our civil rights are on the line RIGHT NOW – we need your calls!
In 1990, the ADA gave people with disabilities the legal right to access in our communities. 28 years later, businesses are still trying to avoid their responsibility to their disabled customers by lobbying for a bill called HR 620. This bill would erode our protections under the ADA and...
Posted in Action, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, News, Policy, Uncategorized
Tagged action alert, Americans with Disabilities Act, HR 620, inclusion
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ASAN Condemns White House Autism Proclamation
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network strongly condemns the President’s regressive World Autism Awareness Day proclamation, and the announcement that the White House will be participating in Autism Speaks’ “Light It Up Blue” campaign. After a decade of progress in which public conversations about autism have increasingly shifted away from...
Posted in Changing Perceptions, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, News, Statement
Tagged Autism Speaks, l, White House
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ASAN Praises Pennsylvania House Bill That Would Ban Disability Discrimination in Organ Transplants
ASAN applauds the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for passing House Bill No. 585, which would ban disability discrimination in organ transplants in the state. The bill would ensure that no person would be deemed ineligible to receive an organ solely because of a physical or mental disability, except to...
Posted in Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, News, Policy, Press, Therapies and Health Care
Tagged discrimination, ethics, health care, neurodiversity, organ transplantation, organ transplants, stigma, supports
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