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Using DS as the cover for what is clearly an anti-abortion agenda led by right wing politicians who have actively supported policies that destroy disabled people’s lives & life chances is not the win for disability rights that it is being presented as being.

I remember when the champions of the ineffectual and divisive Down Syndrome Act mocked those of us who knew it was a front for anti-abortion legislation. And now look at this: weaponising people with Down’s Syndrome to bring about restrictions in women’s reproductive rights.

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Disabled people living on the streets, yards from former DWP offices
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Sharon Louise Smith Liam Fox MP The most effective thing that the government could do for those with DS and in fact all with complex needs, LD etc is stop decimating services, fund education, health and social care properly. The DS act was far easier for the government to do and costs far less

For anyone who thinks that Sir Liam Fox MP is some sort of saviour who has come to rescue and champion people with Down’s syndrome, think again.

Check out his voting record. He was absent when we were fighting to get the vaccine for ppl with learning disabilities. 1/

EXCL: UK taxpayers have paid out more than £34,000 to cover cost of science minister Michelle Donelan’s libel case - more than double the sum the government previously admitted.
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

I have already written to my MP

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