carlos drazen wrote in part:
> But isn't the Disability Rights Movement's attitude towards the abortion
> > > of disabled children also Utilitarian? Aren't they saying that the
> > > occasional parent who doesn't want to give birth to a disabled child for
> > > whatever reason must be forced to, for the greater good of the majority
> > > of people with disabilities?
>
> I have read a number of arguments on this abortion of fetus' with
> disabilities and they all seem to say that aborting a child with a
> disability is done for the sake of the parent so as not to bring a child
> into a world that discriminates against it. I think this is a specious
> statement because you don't hear the disability rights movement fighting
> against the abortion of minority individuals (who are also discriminated
> against) Is the single black mother who gets an abortion because she can't
> take care of a child, supposed to have the child anyway for the greater
> good of the race? Are any of you willing to take your argument that far?
> Also, is abortion of a fetus with a disability ALWAYS done for the good of
> the parent--what about not wanting to bring a child into a world of
> painkillers, medications chemotherapy, respirators etc. Its nice to
> believe that living, at any cost, is important but how many of you are
> currently going thru severe pain or other severe problems. Not that I
> think Singer is right, but I think that like everything else, these
> decisions need to be made on a case by case basis and I believe that
> whatever the reason, abortion is a choice that is only the business of the
> parents.
Could you please site a text? In all the books, articles, etc., I have read,
these statements have never been made in even remotely definitive terms. Yes, it
is stated and shown that, due to societal stereotypes, miseducation, etc.,
women/parents are encouraged to abort or kill their Disabled children. What is
ALSO stated is that there are other factors involved in deciding whether or not to
have a child and, again, in all the literature I have read, the literature states
that, ultimately, it should be the individual's choice (usually considered the
woman's not the parents') but a choice based upon factual information and not upon
societal stereotypes, miseducation perpetuated by the medical establishment, etc.
(Shapiro, 1993; Morris, 1991; to name but two).
As for the implications and the supposed lack of mention of the discrimination
that exists due to race or any other minority category, again, please site texts,
literature, something to base this statement upon. Thomson, Davis, Linton,
Morris, Shapiro, Pernick, to name but a few, all not only mention the similarities
in situations among minority groups but also begin to question the implications
that the similarity of issues and complexity of the interwovenness (for lack of a
better term) amongst said groups states about the societal make-up of
discrimination and what is based upon -- usually assumed to be hate and ignorance
-- among other things that these delvings suggest.
Now perhaps, other literature, rhetoric, propaganda out there suggests something
far different. However, I'm still curious to know what and where these texts
are. A citation, if you please.
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