Pictured: Domenica with her parents, Rosa and DominicDevastatingIn one example, a man in his 50s with sight loss was issued with a DNR form giving as a reason 'blindness and severe learning disabilities'. But in the case of those with learning disabilities, there is not even the unspoken justification that they are near the end of life anyway. But the recent revelations by Turning Point and Learning Disability England show that a number of doctors either have not got the message or are deliberately ignoring it. The Government is in the process of imposing British abortion law on Northern Ireland, despite the fact that the Northern Ireland Assembly has clearly indicated its opposition (and this is supposed to be a devolved matter). Yet in the supposedly enlightened Britain of 2020, the law uniquely treats viable unborn children with almost any form of diagnosed disability as similarly worthless.

Source: Daily Mail June 14, 2020 23:29 UTC