RIP Harriet McBryde Johnson

She apparently died suddenly yesterday. I first encountered Johnson, a very vocal disability rights activist, in the New York Times, confronting Peter Singer as to whether she should have been killed. I found her often politically desperately wrongheaded, but I greatly admired the courage and character it took to fight so passionately, and personally, for what she believed in.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2008/06/rip-harriet-mcbryde-johnson/3614/