Friday 26th August 2011

For goodness sake make it stop!!!!

Some seriously scary articles have been popping up – should I say exploding like grenades? – all over my laptop lately. If what I write doesn’t worry you, then these should surely cause concern?

Firstly http://www.edf-feph.org/Page_Generale.asp?DocID=13855&thebloc=27880 The largest disability groups in Europe unite to take a case against France – yes France – to the European Court of Human Rights over the forced sterilisation of 5 disabled women. A eugenics case going to court in a developed nation.

Here’s a lawyer, blogging about his experience of representing a cancer patient who failed her Work Capability Assessment for Employment Support …………..

Read the full post here: 

http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.com/2011/08/human-rights-not-if-youre-disabled.html

 

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