i think all of us at one time or other had to come to
the point that we said, "i am a person worth as much
as anyone else!" i think i was in the 7th or eighth
grade when i hit that point. i could go to my home
town and got and stand on the very spot where i stood
when i reached that conclusion.

--- Rayna <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi Kat,
>
> I've heard about this case here and there over the
> last couple of years,
> and I also find it very disturbing.  Although having
> said that, even
> though our public health care system seems better
> than the US, it is
> still very difficult to get appropriate, and enough
> care and assistance
> for people with severe disabilities - not enough
> resourses to go around,
> so I can understand the family's desire for more
> money to provide for
> all the supports that this young woman will need.
> But, I think that
> suing the doctor isn't the way to go about it - the
> gov't and society
> in general need to be held accountable for the lack
> of access and
> support that is a result of the discrimination and
> devaluing of PWD.  I
> have *huge* problems with the mother's attitude, and
> the fact that she
> has essentially gone public in saying that she
> wishes her daughter
> hadn't been born can't be good for her daughter, and
> it isn't good for
> children and young adults with disabilities who
> haven't yet been given
> the chance to see the damage society's prejudices do
> to hear this in the
> media.  At one point in my own life, I would have
> agreed that having a
> disability makes you worth less - that's how
> brainwashed I was, and
> reading an article like this then would have
> reinforced that feeling.
> Thankfully I was able to throw off that thinking,
> but it is very hard,
> with things like this happening.
>
> A distasteful situation all round.
>
> Rayna
> (very late in responding to this...)
>
>
> [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> >Rayna, do you know anything about this case? She
> seems to be in Sydney.
> >
> >
>
>http://www.courttv.com/news/2005/1110/harriton_ctv.html
> >
> >This bothers me on so many levels, I can't even
> begin.
> >
> >Kat
> >
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