Straight from My Heart is a collection of fifteen short stories and seventy-three poems, approximately chronological, with each story being…
Browsing: Disability, Sickness & Suffering
The doctor performing the ultrasound had a strange look on his face. The newly married couple braced themselves for what…
With the passage of each year it appears that more and more Americans are being served a platter of nuanced…
The United States Senate voted this week against ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with…
In recent decades, America has made many wonderful advances in protecting the rights of people with disabilities and including them in…
Senator Reid made a motion yesterday to move the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to executive…
‘End this pregnancy and tie her tubes.’ That was the stark advice given by a a court-summoned doctor in a…
As a physician I deal with what Gerard Nadal, PhD (who blogs at Coming Home) writes about every day. I…
All parents want their newborn child to be “perfect”—free from any physical or mental impairment. Mainstream culture teaches us to…
Today is the feast of Blessed John Paul II. He is often referred to as John Paul the Great, but…