http://www.davisenterprise.com/forum/opinion-columns/time-to-support-people-with-disabilities/ Yolo County, California Thu, 16 Apr 2015 17:11:01 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://www.davisenterprise.com/forum/opinion-columns/time-to-support-people-with-disabilities/comment-page-1/#comment-463091 Thu, 24 Jul 2014 07:27:04 +0000 http://www.davisenterprise.com/?p=474373#comment-463091 Thanks for publishing this cogent, rational, compassionate letter.It’s rare to have all that in one communication.We citizens now have a chance to urge that th right thing bedone by the US Senate, in ratifying the Disabilities treaty (CRPD).
Plaudits to Verena Borton and the United Nations Association of Davis.

]]> http://www.davisenterprise.com/forum/opinion-columns/time-to-support-people-with-disabilities/comment-page-1/#comment-463044 Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:31:01 +0000 http://www.davisenterprise.com/?p=474373#comment-463044 Let’s hope the Senate does the right thing this time around. Unfortunately, right-wing critics—led by former Senator Rick Santorum, the Heritage Foundation and home-schoolers—have made specious arguments that adopting it would allow global enforcers to determine the treatment of Americans with disabilities and the permissibility of home schooling, and that it would ease access to abortion because of language guaranteeing people with disabilities equal rights to reproductive health care.

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