Sentence examples for disabled human from inspiring English sources

In 1999, his appointment to Princeton University was protested by activists on behalf of the disabled, who objected to his view that the active euthanasia of severely disabled human infants is morally permissible in some circumstances.

But those claims have significant practical implications for cognitively disabled human beings.

Arthritic cat Denver has been helped by a charity with disabled human volunteers.

He contends that with such modifications, the Original Position can yield principles more sensitive to disability concerns about the continuous nature of abilities, the stigmatization resulting from false dichotomization, and the exclusion of severely disabled human beings.

For the most part, the philosophers who have considered these claims were not primarily concerned with the treatment or moral status of cognitively disabled human beings they sought to challenge existing practices toward fetuses or animals, or the rationales for such practices.

If the justification for treating living beings in certain ways does rest to some extent on their possession or lack of intellectual attributes, then it may be acceptable to treat cognitively disabled human beings in ways that it would be unacceptable to treat cognitively nondisabled humans.

Finally, in addressing the moral status of cognitively disabled humans in a separate entry, rather than in a general entry on disability, we are not endorsing a questionable "exceptionalism" about cognitive disabilities a view that regards them as fundamentally different from other kinds of impairment (see Related Entries below).

Rebecca Skloot (Jan . 4 considers various moral and legal issues related to the use of exotic nonhuman species as guides for disabled humans.

According to the brief in the case, the chimps "are capable of rational thought, communication, and other higher cognitive functions," justifying their treatment as the legal equivalent of minors or disabled humans.

It sounds like shameless Hollywood schmaltz: A critically injured young dolphin, facing almost certain death, recovers miraculously when medical research intended for disabled humans leads to a prosthesis for her amputated tail.

He says the polymer could eventually be used to make the synthetic muscles needed to move artificial limbs, either to replace missing ones for disabled humans or to allow robots to move things like a human can.