Mike,

Where are you, and how recently were you told by that "doctor" that you
should be sterilized?  My Mom did her nurses training in the late 40's
at a University where girls with disabilities (but not boys) were
routinely sterilized until the 60's.  Interestingly enough, my wife, as
a kid, attended the Hospital School at that same university during the
summer until she was 12 or so for PT, OT, and Speech because the little
town she lived in didn't have those services.

Kendall Corbett

An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

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Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 8:01 PM
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Subject: Re: new member intro and some well-meant comments...

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.