Gregor's response to Judy...
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> Wolbring
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 7:34 AM
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> Subject: Re: Demonising Peter Singer - just plain old anti-semitism?
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> On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Judy Singer wrote:
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> > 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?
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> No one in the disability movement is saying that. To the contrary
> thereare only two characteristics out there who demand a prohibition of
> the option of termination of their characteristic namely quite a few women
> and women groups whodemand the prohibition of sex selection and some gay's
> in a preemptive strike just in case the gay gene is found they argue
> testing for sexual orientationshould be prohibited. In the USA e.g.
> thePennsylvania abortion law proibits abortion based on the reason of sex
> but not on disability.
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> WHAT the disability community IS saying is that the tests are developed to
> target specific characteristics which society doesn't want (and that the
> framework support... is developed that women have no choice anymore than
> to terminate (choice defined as a choice between to equaly valid options).
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> > It needs no excusing - you're doing us all a favour - I don't think that
> > arguments protecting free speech can be repeated often enough.
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> Free speech is a myth. For many things we don't have free speech. In order
> to have free speech you also have to have access to distribute your speech
> but that is very unevenly divided for the powerful ones and the no power
> ones. and many
> government have coupled their free speech legislation with a section where
> free speech stops where it endangeres someone.
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> Dr. Gregor Wolbring
> Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
> Faculty of Medicine
> University of Calgary
> 3330 Hospital Drive NW
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> Alberta, Canada
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