I agree with what you are saying however, unless this is also a mis-quote, she also is quoted as having said -
"Nancy Rarus, a staff member at the National Association of the Deaf, said it was not unusual for deaf people to want deaf children but said she regretted the decision.
"I'm a social animal, and it's very difficult for me to talk to my neighbours. I wish I could walk up to somebody and ask for information," she said. "I've had a lot of arguments in the deaf community about that. People talk about, 'the sky's the limit,' but being deaf prevents you from getting there. You don't have as many choices. I can't understand why anybody would want to bring a disabled child into the world."
http://www.atforumz.com/archive/index.php/t-125495.html
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From: Karen Nakamura
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Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 2:37 AM
Subject: Re: deaf parents chose to abort a hearing child
>Maybe she really did say it. But the fact that the quote was reproduced in
>several other news sources is not very good evidence that she was _not_
>misquoted. These outfits borrow each others' sources, I think. The fact that
>they use the very same wording is evidence that they did not independently
>check with Ms. Rarus to get the quotation. I don't know Rarus, and I have no
>reason to defend her, but if she was misquoted once it's quite possible that
>the misquote was perpetrated by other news organizations.
I agree. Nancy Rarus is apparently deaf herself (BA Gallaudet):
http://www.nad.org/site/pp.asp?c=foINKQMBF&b=187078
There could have been a misquotation or mistranslation (relay
operator or terp) here. To me, a deaf staff member at the NAD making
such a statement is a bigger story than a deaf couple wanting a deaf
child.
I guess I forgot to introduce myself since I'm new to the list. I'm
a temporarily able-bodied political and cultural anthropologist who
does work around disability politics in Japan. My dissertation was on
deaf social movements there in the post-war period, and I'm currently
doing research on categories of emerging disabilities.
Karen Nakamura
Macalester College
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