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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