Disability is not a golden star
First, welcome to the Living With Disabilities Advocacy Website. It's run by none other than Katrina Smith, who's a person with a learning disability. Her mission behind Living With Disabilities is to bring awareness to all people with disabilities.
Today, Living With Disabilities wants to talk about being a person with a disability. Note that some parts of this article can become controversial and you are willing to leave a comment. Living With Disabilities always wants to hear from you.
And what other way to introduce this topic with a quote from Jhana Matthews, a friend, and self-advocate of Katrina Smith.
Which will you be, the hopeless Victim, that everyone wants you to be, or the hopeful Victor?!?!?!?!
Everyone is born into this world for a reason, whatever that reason maybe every Individual will know as time goes on. Some of us are born with a disability, a physical disability. Like, Cerebral Palsy, or being born without limbs. And then some disabilities are developed early or later in life. Like, Learning disabilities, and the list goes on from there.
Can you feel the heat starting to build up around you? Being a person in the disabled community is no laughing matter, and here is where it can become very controversial, regarding disability-related abortion. West Virginia has made it a law that a mother cannot abort her child if she feels her unborn child has a disability. And some people are against abortion, and others are for it.
Living With Disabilities Take a big deep breath and breathe out over this because it can become very controversial. We all know how children are made. So, we won't go into full details. But, it will also cover other ways a child is created, which will generate some heated conversation.
When it comes to bearing a child, some mothers prefer to abort their child due to financial reasons or because they were forced into having a child. In this case, it is considered rape.
And other cases are due to the child having a disability.
Living With Disabilities had to hunt down the internet for statistics. What was found that made Living With Disabilities stop in our tracks? For every hundred unborn children diagnosed with down syndrome, 67% are aborted in the United States. According to Care💙 Net. and the same percentage for Spina Bifida too. Searching for other disabilities was hard to come by. Therefore, Katrina wants to say she feels the percentage is the same all around.
Disability is not a golden star, living a life as a person with a disability isn't the Hollywood walk of fame. Dealing with a disability most definitely has its ups and it has its downs. But, an unborn child that has a disability has every right to survival.
Living With Disabilities is against abortion, and if a mother does not want to care for a child with a disability, they should put their child up for adoption.
A child that has a disability should be seen as a person with a unique gift. Instead, how society paint a person with a disability as unable to? Living With Disabilities wants to paint a positive outcome by saying: My Disabilities are My Superpower. Giving a positive insight on having a disability does not only uplifts the person with the disability. But, also paints a bright picture for society too, for those who are willing to understand a person with a disability.
Work cited pages
National Library of Medicine
Care Net
Care Net
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