Do you think that disabled people should be put down at birth?

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Well, there's a lot, as a disability activist, active in three trade unions, two tenants associations and the TUC, I could say. But I will limit myself to some major points .

(1) Only 17% of disabled people are disabled from birth, the rest acquire disabilities in later life. The age at which significant numbers of people start to become disabled is 48,

(2) With increased longevity, the percentage of the population who are disabled is rising and will rise significantly. In 1900, life expectancy for men was 49, for women 51. That generation mostly died before significant numbers of it had a chance to become disabled.

With improvements in medical care, more and more people are now surviving operations and conditions that a generation earlier would have killed them. But they do so as disabled people.

(3) Social policy hasn't got to grips yet with the problem of a higher percentage of elderly people in the population, let alone with a higher percentage of disabled people in the population.
The UK Government proposes to make both sexes work till 67, as a way of dealing with the former problem! What kind of soluton is that?

(4) In ancient Egypt they dealt with the problem by feeding the elderly to the crocodiles. In ancient Greece, disabled new-born babies were left to die on a mountainside. These aren't solutions either.

(5) Should Beethoven have been put down when he went deaf? We wouldn't have his 9th Symphony if he had have been. It didn't prevent him writing it, did it? Similarly, Motor Neurone Disease hasn't prevented Stephen Hawking from making a major contribution to cosmology.

(6) What has limited Hawking, though, is the inadequacy of his care package and support he receives. It forced him into making an undignified self-parody of himself by using his Metal Mickey voice in stupid TV commercials just to earn the money to pay for his Personal Assistants and Nursing support.

Lord Ashley's Independent Living Bill currently going through the House of Lords seeks to ensure disabled people define and get the support they need.

(7) The key issue is WHAT IS DISABILITY? The medical and charity models of disability would have us believe that our impairments are our disability. X is deaf, Y is blind, Z has mobility issues. But to fully understand disability we need to use the Social Model of Disability, which makes clear that what disables us are the barriers we face to full inclusion in society. e,g, the built environment, people's attitudes and assumptions, the policy, practices and procedures of organisations.

(8) Solutions to disabled people not having a full life therefore lie in systematically removing the barriers we face. Remove the barriers, do not remove the person who experiences the barriers! See the person, not the disability!

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No, they are human beings too. Just because they are different than others is no reason why they can't live happy lives. They should be given the same chance as the rest of us.

That is a really awful question!!.
You Evil F***

OMG, this is a pretty horrible question. NO!! They should not be "put down" at birth. Are you kidding me?? They are not animals, they are human beings!! And many, many disabled people can go on to live productive, happy lives. Anyone who thinks differently is sick.

no.everyone has the right to life.i know your in pain but not everybody with disabilities wished they werent born.hopefully they'll find a cure or something to ease youir suffering

No. They are human beings. They deserve to live and grow and experience life like everyone else. Besides, where would they draw the line? Only people who can not function on their own, or as far as people who need glasses?

Wow! That's a cruel thing to say. I'm sure some severley disabled people if they had a choice would choose that path because of their poor quality of life. But generally most disabled people can manage to still have a decent enough life. Some people who are not disabled have a really poor quality of life and would like to end it, so it's really a case of making the most of what you have

U should be ashamed of yourself!thi last people who thought like that, wore swastikas on their uniforms,and terrorized europe,1939-45.

disabled people have as much right to life as you their life is equally as precious to them as yours is to you just be gratefull it is not you

no one should, that is the talk of the nazis who beleived in breeding the perfect race. what next kill somone if they become disabled

EUGENICS!!

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