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When Baroness Campbell of Surbiton was born, the doctors told her mother that she was very unlikely to live longer than a year. But, over 50 years later, Lady Campbell is a leading campaigner for the rights of people with disabilities and a member of the British House of Lords.

Lady Campbell has a degenerative condition called Type 1 Spinal Muscular Atrophy. She uses a wheelchair and has serious breathing problems, for which she needs to use a mechanical ventilator, in order to breathe throug...

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