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  2. Timeline of disability rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Disability rights advocates Patrisha Wright of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), and Evan Kemp Jr. (of the Disability Rights Center) led an intense lobbying and grassroots campaign that generated more than 40,000 cards and letters. After three years, the Reagan Administration abandoned its attempts to revoke or amend the ...

  3. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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    The Article obligates States Parties to safeguard and promote the realization of the right to work, including for those who acquire a disability during the course of employment, by taking appropriate steps, including through legislation, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability with regard to all matters concerning all forms of ...

  4. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 - Wikipedia

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    From some 550 contenders, Alf Morris was afforded the opportunity to introduce his Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Bill. [6] The provisions of the act are wide-ranging and place a legal obligation on local authorities to make arrangements in relation to access for disabled people to public buildings, such as libraries. Section 2 of the ...

  5. Woman with ALS explains decision to die with medical assistance

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    When asked about people who think dying with medical assistance isn't a great idea, Goodfriend said, "If it's not a good idea for you, don't consider it, but there has to be a way for those who ...

  6. Duty to rescue - Wikipedia

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    In Russia, Article 125 of the criminal code prohibits knowingly abandoning people who are in life- or health-threatening situations when said people cannot help themselves. [52] However it binds only those who are either legally obligated to care for said people or who themselves have put said people into life or health threatening situation.

  7. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - Wikipedia

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    The Supreme Court decided under Title II of the ADA that mental illness is a form of disability and therefore covered under the ADA, and that unjustified institutional isolation of a person with a disability is a form of discrimination because it "...perpetuates unwarranted assumptions that persons so isolated are incapable or unworthy of ...

  8. Baby Doe Law - Wikipedia

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    (B) an assurance that the State has in place procedures for responding to the reporting of medical neglect (including instances of withholding of medically indicated treatment from disabled infants with life-threatening conditions), procedures or programs, or both (within the State child protective services system), to provide for--

  9. Five Tufts lacrosse players hospitalized with rare muscle ...

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    It can be brought on by high-intensity exercise, dehydration and overheating, among other causes. Rhabdomyolysis can cause kidney damage, and it can be life-threatening if not treated properly.