Disability Day of Mourning 2023: What Is It, and How Can You Get Involved?
…ch are reported in news media. This problem is made worse by irresponsible news coverage which presents these murders as the sympathetic acts of loving and desperate parents, by a justice system which often gives a lighter sentence to a parent who kills a disabled child, and by the dangerous cultural prejudice that says a disabled life is not worth living.” The first Disability Day of Mourning was held in 2012 after the murder of George Hodgins, a…