2:02pm July 25, 2013

➸ Virginia woman with Down syndrome seeks power to live the way she wants - The Washington Post

“There is a default assumption that people with intellectual disabilities and people with mental illness need people to make decisions for them, that they can’t, with aid, fend for themselves. Which just isn’t true,” said Jennifer Mathis of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, one of several organizations that have expressed interest in the case to the court.