Say, why don't they cut off her legs, too? She doesn't use them, and it'll make her lighter and easier to transfer! Yeah! It isn't any more gruesome than cutting out her uterus, is it? Oh, it's in her best interest! It'll spare her the pain of ingrown toenails and foot fungus!
So, do you think there'll be a rash of people wanting to castrate their sons so they don't have to worry about rampaging male hormones, unsightly erections, and the inconvenience of daily shaving? Or is it just girls because periods are yucky?
I am disturbed but not particularly suprised. A similar case went the supreme court here in Canada several years ago (and lost thank God!). I really did think we had left this Eugenics stuff behind us. I can't really be surprised when the woman whose last name I share, helped create Eugenics clinics that were still in operation to sterilize women from the very "special" schools I was slotted to be sent to as a child. The US finally stopped sterilizing native women in the 80's, so a challenge to continue doing in for another group seen to be in "need of protection" shouldn't surprise me, but of course it always does. I think instead of those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it, it is now, those who troll history to try and find case study to assault what any reasonable person should understands - Eugenics=bad
Word on the forced sterilization - in NC, black women were also sterilized without consent into the 1980's. The problem may be that what is done to people with disabilities is framed as for their good.
We've learned that sterilizing women for the good of the race is actually racist, but we need to realize that all of this surgery, etc. is EXACTLY the same thing. We can't let people frame it as medical care, because it isn't.
Let me make sure I have this right - they won't use other non-invasive methods of controlling her menstruation because they're afraid the drugs might cause health problems, but don't see any possibility that a hysterectomy might cause health problems? Do they understand just what a hysterectomy does to a woman? And they want to take her appendix out because they're afraid they wouldn't know if she had appendicitis?
Their claims that she can't ride horses or theme-park rides because of her size don't impress me either. I'm sure they could work out a way of getting her on a horse if they actually made some effort and there are lots of theme park rides that are designed for adults and children together, so there must be some of those she could enjoy too. It sounds to me like the parents just want whatever is easiest for themselves, not what is best for her. I'm disgusted.
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So, do you think there'll be a rash of people wanting to castrate their sons so they don't have to worry about rampaging male hormones, unsightly erections, and the inconvenience of daily shaving? Or is it just girls because periods are yucky?
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We've learned that sterilizing women for the good of the race is actually racist, but we need to realize that all of this surgery, etc. is EXACTLY the same thing. We can't let people frame it as medical care, because it isn't.
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Their claims that she can't ride horses or theme-park rides because of her size don't impress me either. I'm sure they could work out a way of getting her on a horse if they actually made some effort and there are lots of theme park rides that are designed for adults and children together, so there must be some of those she could enjoy too. It sounds to me like the parents just want whatever is easiest for themselves, not what is best for her. I'm disgusted.
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