at CNN.

The article mentions an Autism bill which passed the Senate two weeks ago to increase funding for autism support services. I'm not a fan of big govt, but for parents of autistic kids, this is essential. Further, autism spectrum disorder is markedly increasing throughout the developed world for unknown reasons. So we need more services to cope with the huge increase of autistic kids. Perhaps if we have to strip funds from other endevours like AIDS and cancer it may be worth it; since treatment & research in autism is sorely lacking, whereas we know a ton about cancer and AIDS, and the treatments are already well established.