Independent councillor Neil Burden told BBC News the comment was along the lines of "as medicine progresses more and more handicapped children survive".

BBC: Cornwall Council

Georgina Murphy (Glasgow) - For services to Handicapped Children in Glasgow.

BBC: Famous and not so famous honoured

The idea, for example, that parents of handicapped children might want to cherish them at home rather than dump them in an institution remains unfamiliar despite charities' efforts.

ECONOMIST: Russian love in a cold climate

Countless people have phoned and written from all over the country and all over the world -- friends, strangers, quadriplegics, parents of handicapped children -- to say how inspired they were by such an act of kindness and compassion at a time of such unspeakable evil.

CNN: [Abraham J. Zelmanowitz]

He went on to teach the handicapped and take foster children into his home.

NEWYORKER: In Plain View

The Missionaries of Charity runs hostels for lepers, AIDS patients, the crippled and mentally handicapped, unwed mothers, abandoned children, alcoholics, drug abusers.

CNN: PASSAGE

On December 8th he proposed a new allowance for spouses (usually wives) looking after dependants (children, the old and handicapped).

ECONOMIST: Ireland

One of the biggest problems is schooling: Roma children are routinely placed in institutions for the mentally handicapped.

ECONOMIST: Europe's Roma

That permits terminations up to 24 weeks of pregnancy on grounds that include risk to the physical or mental health of the woman or existing children in the family, and abnormalities that could lead to a child being "seriously handicapped".

BBC: Draft NI abortion guidelines published by minister

Fraser, who was partially handicapped by multiple sclerosis, worked swing shifts as a city pump operator, while Marian tended to the children.

NEWYORKER: The Other Obama