Women with disabilities may be prevented access to reproductive medicine due to discrimination and mistaken assumptions about disabled people.

Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision.

McMaster University’s medical school curriculum promotes compassionate, person-centered care by incorporating the views of persons with disabilities.

Workplace wellness programs contribute to the wellness movement by enlisting nontraditional health partners and influencing social determinants of health.

Women with intellectual disabilities should not be sedated for a pap smear without their assent, and the test’s risks and benefits should be weighed.

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s argument for disability as a sociocultural resource challenges the commonsense understanding of disability as a deficit.

Noninvasive prenatal testing arguably constitutes a form of eugenics in a social context in which certain reproductive outcomes are not valued.

Designation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as a medically underserved population would not solve problems of access to care.

Physicians must resist judging the quality of life of their patients with Down syndrome and learn to listen and see them as individual personalities.

Safe patient handling laws and programs offer considerable benefits to health care workers, who have higher rates of exertion injuries than other workers.