The Electric Edge is the on-line version of the Disability Rag magazine.
You can find it at http://www.iglou.com/why/edge/
The current issue has a good article on assisted suicide and the
disabled.  The following is a brief excerpt of  an article about the
recent controversy over the FDR memorial.

- Mark



People often find it easier to be a result of the past
than a cause of the future!

excerpt from http://www.iglou.com/why/edge/


   Was FDR great because he was disabled? Did disability forge his
   character?

   Should he be celebrated because we can look to him as a disabled man
   who made good?

   Is disability simply one aspect of a person, like hair color, or does
   having a disability inform one's being on some essential level?

   Replace "disability" in the sentences above with "woman," "gay,"
   ''African American:" Society has heard these other debates. Do people
   realize crips are now doing the same thing?

   Are we a group that faces discrimination in the same way as
   traditional minorities -- say, Blacks and Jews? Those of us who call
   ourselves disability activists may think so. But a lot of people still
   don't see it.

   "I became a member of a minority group called the disabled,"
   Presidential hopeful Bob Dole told a meeting of African-American
   journalists in Nashville during the campaign last fall. ''And I gained
   an understanding of hardship." He'd been advised the I'm
   sensitive-because-I've -suffered message would play well to
   minorities.

   The advice was optimistic. More than one black journalist said Dole's
   message was "a big stretch."