http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2007/10/21/babies-aborted-for-minor-disabilities/ Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:46:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2007/10/21/babies-aborted-for-minor-disabilities/comment-page-1/#comment-285 mario25student Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:35:59 +0000 http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2007/10/21/babies-aborted-for-minor-disabilities/#comment-285 What are these parents thinking? That human lives are products that can be returned to the realm of oblivion if slightly dented? Do they not realize the stigma they are enforcing by denying humans who could be physically different the right to exist? They are upholding the social message that Nancy Mairs writes about in WAIST-HIGH IN THE WORLD (112): The one of marginalizing people with disabilities with the emphasis that "no one with the power to choose would ever have permitted them to exist." This situation is scarier, however, because cleft lips and club feet are not so much "disabilities" but physical abnormalities. If this continues, people with biological differences will be looked upon as mistakes that could have been prevented. This type of abortion hints to a kind of extinction, where the surviving beings with disabilities could be pushed to the edge of society as people who should have been prevented life. What are these parents thinking? That human lives are products that can be returned to the realm of oblivion if slightly dented? Do they not realize the stigma they are enforcing by denying humans who could be physically different the right to exist? They are upholding the social message that Nancy Mairs writes about in WAIST-HIGH IN THE WORLD (112): The one of marginalizing people with disabilities with the emphasis that “no one with the power to choose would ever have permitted them to exist.” This situation is scarier, however, because cleft lips and club feet are not so much “disabilities” but physical abnormalities. If this continues, people with biological differences will be looked upon as mistakes that could have been prevented. This type of abortion hints to a kind of extinction, where the surviving beings with disabilities could be pushed to the edge of society as people who should have been prevented life.

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