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New York to Pay $10 Million in Woman’s Death After Abuse in Group Home

By: Hurubie Meko and Benjamin Weiser — 19 December 2024 at 23:11

The state in 2019 paid a $2 million abuse settlement. In retaliation, staff members withheld the victim’s medicine, and she died in a hospital.

The allegations of what occurred within the walls of the brick building that housed 24 developmentally disabled residents were staggering.

Despite Bans, Disabled Women Are Still Being Sterilized in Europe

By: Sarah Hurtes — 26 November 2023 at 00:22

Governments have declared the practice a human rights violation. But they have made exceptions that are divisive among parents, doctors and social workers.

At age 20, Kristin Smith’s mother arranged for her to have a tubal ligation.