The Promise, and Failure, of the Americans With Disabilities Act
It's hard to feel celebratory on the 35th anniversary of the ADA when we've made so little progress. With Trump back in office, is the ADA doomed forever?
Robyn Powell
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Robyn Powell, PhD, JD, is an assistant professor at Stetson University College of Law and a senior research associate at the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at Brandeis University. As a proud disabled woman, Dr. Powell’s scholarship studies the intersection of disability law, reproductive justice, health law, and public policy.
Disabled People Still Don’t Have Reproductive Freedom
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Medicare For All Is Great. Unless the GOP Gets Control
Affordable, quality health care has always been a challenge for people with disabilities. But will government-funded health care address these issues—or make them worse?
I Prefer That You Say I’m “Disabled”
“Special needs” indicates that the needs of the disabled are extra, and that can be a matter of life or death.
What If the Pre-existing Condition Mandate Is Repealed?
It's not just people with disabilities who are at risk. Half of non-elderly Americans have preexisting conditions and could find themselves uninsured, sick, and out of luck.
Disabled People Shouldn’t Have to Fight to Be Parents
As the writer considers whether to become a mother, she reveals this nation's long history of depriving the right of parenthood to the disabled—which continues to this day.
Disability Activists Have Been Fighting For All of Us All Along
The fight to save health care has put disabled protestors in the limelight. But this wasn't their first time putting their lives on the line to battle discrimination.