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Category Archives: Disability Rights and Neurodiversity
ASAN, 35 Advocacy Organizations File Amicus Brief Supporting Civil Rights Laws
View this statement as a PDF here. Today, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, ACLU, and thirty-four other advocacy organizations filed an amicus brief encouraging broad enforcement of civil rights laws protecting people from discrimination based on disability, race, religion, and sex. The brief asks the Second Circuit Court of...
Posted in Autistic Community and Allies, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, News, Press, Policy, Statement
Tagged civil rights
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ASAN Comments on Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine
This document can be found as a PDF here. September 4, 2020 Committee on Equitable Allocation of Vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 500 5th St NW Washington, DC 20001 Autistic Self Advocacy Network Comments on Discussion Draft of the Preliminary Framework for...
Posted in Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, Therapies and Health Care, News, Press, Statement
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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 Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, Action
Tagged action alerts, action, action alert, senate, supreme court, judge kavanaugh, kavanaugh, brett kavanaugh, judge brett kavanaugh, scotus
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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 Uncategorized, Disability Rights and Neurodiversity, Action, News, Policy
Tagged Americans with Disabilities Act, inclusion, action alert, HR 620
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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, White House, l
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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, Therapies and Health Care, News, Press, Policy
Tagged health care, neurodiversity, stigma, supports, ethics, discrimination, organ transplantation, organ transplants
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ASAN Comments on Proposed Person-Centered Planning Panel
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