Terry Schiavo’s Disability
21.03.2005March 20, 2005 — It’s time for the press to talk to the real experts on the Schiavo case, the disability rights movement. Not Dead Yet has led the disability community’s opposition to non-voluntary euthanasia for a decade. Diane Coleman, the group’s founder and president, and Stephen Drake, its research analyst, are available in Chicago to discuss the disability angle on the recent legislative and legal developments in the case.
Read more at Not Dead Yet.
What is missing from most discussions are the experts. The issue is not about left versus right but about the systematic exclusion of people with disabilities from any discussions about how to best manage and treat disabilties, even disabilities as severe as Terry Schiavo’s.
I can say that the left is about as ill-informed as the right. Neither argument interests me at all. What does interest me?
Putting disability rights activists right square center in the discussion.