Aims
Alison Davis, the National Co-ordinator of NLH, has spina bifida. As
well as her work for SPUC, she runs Enable (Working in India) a charity
supporting disabled children in India. She is pictured here with one of
the children cared for by the charity.
- To promote the equal status, worth and rights of disabled
people, including the most fundamental right of all - the right to
life, from conception to natural death.
- To monitor, research and to produce factual information
with a view to opposing measures designed to end the lives of disabled
people, including pre-natal screening tests which aim to detect and
eliminate unborn disabled babies, the sedation and starvation to death
of new-born disabled babies (often euphemistically referred to as
"allowing to die") and euthanasia.
- To promote greater understanding of the causes and effects
of disabling conditions, and to promote research projects aimed at
preventing the occurrence of disabling conditions.
- To provide advice and information for women expecting a disabled baby.
- To challenge the contemporary philosophy that disabled people are "better off dead".
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