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Date: | Tue, 10 May 2005 16:44:15 -0500 |
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This reminds me of a tape of a radio program . (I think I still have
it.) It basicly says we, the people who have disabilities, must live
with our LIVES NOW, don't wait for a cugre. They were talking about MDA.
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>I have a serious problem with the "religious right" saying we as disabled
>need to be healed. I would like this arthritis to go away but past that I'm
>fine as I am. These are the kind of people who would on one hand be right to
>life and be agaisnt all abourtions, but when it comes to the disable having
>children, their first words would be to have the disabled, both men and women
>sterilized, or have an abortion immediately or try to set up adoption before
>even consulting with the disabled couple. This may not be the case
>everywhere but it is in my area. One doctor told me that I needed to be sterilized.
>No doctor should have the right to say a person should be sterilized unless
>there is a medical need like it would endanger the woman's life. This is one
>of my personal rants against the world.
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