eugenics

Education

January 11, 2018 0

Campaigners welcome resignation of ‘progressive eugenics’ journalist

Campaigners have welcomed the decision of a controversial right-wing writer and free schools advocate to resign from the board of the government’s new higher education watchdog, and say he should never have been appointed. Toby Young’s resignation came just hours after disabled Tory MP Robert Halfon called on his own government to reverse its

Human Rights

Lord Shinkwin speaking in the House of Lords

August 3, 2017 0

My disability abortion bill could halt Britain’s slide towards eugenics, says Tory peer

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A disabled peer has warned that Britain could be heading towards becoming a “eugenic” society if parliament does not agree to update abortion laws to make it illegal to discriminate against foetuses with impairments. Lord [Kevin] Shinkwin believes that equalising the time limit for abortions for both disabled and non-disabled foetuses would send a

Politics

Jared O'Mara, flanked by a woman and a man, in front of a row of houses

July 6, 2017 0

New disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’

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A newly-elected disabled MP has accused the Conservative government of introducing policies inspired by “eugenics” in the hope that disabled people will “suffer and die”. Labour’s Jared O’Mara spoke out just weeks after beating former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to win the Sheffield Hallam seat and become one of just a handful of

Human Rights

March 2, 2017

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Disabled peer accuses Lord Winston of ‘discriminatory eugenic’ abortion agenda

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A disabled peer has accused the renowned fertility expert Lord Winston of trying to hijack his attempts to outlaw disability discrimination in abortion laws because of his “discriminatory eugenic agenda”. The exchange in the House of Lords on Friday came as peers were debating Lord [Kevin] Shinkwin’s abortion (disability equality) bill, which he says

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Campaigners welcome resignation of ‘progressive eugenics’ journalist

My disability abortion bill could halt Britain’s slide towards eugenics, says Tory peer

New disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’

Disabled peer accuses Lord Winston of ‘discriminatory eugenic’ abortion agenda