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Type: Disability Rights ×

This house believes that disabled parents should be able to ensure that their children be born disabled.
Gemini Cup 2019 · Open Quarters · 2019-06-22
This house believes that the State should oblige the parents of people with Special Educational Needs (SEN) to enroll them in regular educational establishments.
Infoslide

People with Special Educational Needs (SEN) have difficulties that are mainly related to a slow learning pace accompanied by skills lowered to the level of abstraction, limiting their access to the school curriculum. They usually have a mild intellectual disharmony together with insufficiently developed cognitive abilities with respect to their chronological age.

IV Torneo Rosarista de Debate 2019 · 3 · 2019-03-22
This house regrets the depiction of the everyday life of people with disabilities as inspirational.
Oxford IV 2018 · 4 · 2018-11-09
Other than a prospective student's net family income, this house would remove all social factors (ie, race, gender, disability status) from university admissions' decision processes.
Huber Debates 2018 · 5 · 2018-11-03
This house would remove all health restrictions for prospective adoptive parents
Infoslide

In the status quo, parents deemed as 'high risk' for serious illness are unlikely to be allowed to adopt. this includes cancer survivors, MS sufferers, etc.

Yale IV 2018 · 4 · 2018-10-26
This house would legalize and train sex workers specifically to work with disabled people
Yale IV 2018 · Open Final · 2018-10-26
This house believes that the deaf rights movement should disproportionately emphasize the positive experiences associated with being deaf
China BP 2018 · 7 · 2018-10-01
This house regrets the increasing trend of popular shows featuring neurodivergence* as the central theme. *Neurodivergence refers to those whose psychology is non standard, e.g. for reasons of mental healThis house, mental disability, etc.
Novi Sad EUDC 2018 · 6 · 2018-07-30
That we should never prosecute individuals with low intellectual functioning.
the 2018 Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championship · 8 · 2018-06-27
That we should never prosecute individuals with low intellectual functioning.
Australs 2018 · 8 · 2018-06-27
This house believes that the disability community should oppose TV program which inspirational portray people with with disabilities.
Pre-Gemini Cup 2018 · 1 · 2018-06-09
This house supports the practice of mainstreaming students with moderate learning disabilities
Infoslide

Mainstreaming is to place a student with special needs into the general class/school. Moderate Learning Disability is a condition giving rise to non-debilitating difficulties in acquiring knowledge and skills to the level expected of those of the same age. Examples include Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and ADHD.

Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2018 · 1 · 2018-06-08
This house opposes public entertainment (such as but not limited to dance comedy and circuses) which people with disabilities utilize their disabilities.
13th The Kansai 2018 · Novice Final · 2018-03-20
This house believes that the disabled community should oppose handicapped entertainers using their disability in a comical or self-deprecating manner to humor the audience.
K-Cup 2017 Main Tournament (BP) · 1 · 2017-07-07
This house would legalize transableism surgeries.
Infoslide

Transableism is a term that refers to the desire to acquire a disability by choice. this move may be as a realignment of their physical body with their perceived identity or as a form of body modification.

26th ICU Tournament 2017 · Open Quarters · 2017-03-23
This house supports deaf parents' choice to deafen their children in utero.
Infoslide

A pill containing a modified form of the rubella virus can be taken by pregnant women which will stunt the development of the fetus’s inner ear, leaving the fetus deaf. There are no other effects of this pill. Motion: Thi

North American Women & Gender Minorities Debating Championship · 1 · 2017-03-17
This house believes that the disability community should oppose TV program which inspirationally portrait people with disabilities. (such as 24 hours TV)
12th Momiji Cup 2016 · Open Quarters · 2016-10-16
This house would require all Olympic sponsors to donate equal amounts of money to the Paralympics.
Northeast Regional Opener 2016 Brad Smith Debate Tournament · 5 · 2016-09-17
This house would mandate equal primetime coverage for Paralympic and Olympic games
- Law
- Social Justice
- Media
- Sports
- Disability Rights
JPDU Autumn Tournament 2016 · 1 · 2016-09-17
In countries where abortion is legal this house would ban the use of technology to check whether the fetuses have disability or not
Icho 2016 · Open Quarters · 2016-08-08