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Rights of the Severely Disabled
By Nigel Rees
Should severely disabled infants receive euthanasia? ... They argue that people with severe disabilities can lead the same, if not better life than a non- disabled person. ...
Firstly, how do you know whether a child is severely disabled? Can you draw a line at severely disabled and just disabled? ...
As you can see it would be hard to draw a line between severely disabled and just disabled. ... Most parents of severely disabled children think that their child is their own and they will love and care for the child even if there was something wrong with them. ... Who is to say that being severely disabled means that there is something wrong with you anyway? Being severely disabled means that you are unable to do many things but you could make up what you can’t do by what you can. An example is Harriet McBryde Johnson who is a disabled lawyer.
Harriet Johnson believes that disabled children shouldn’t be killed just because it is thought that disabled people are worse off and that they suffer. Harriet Johnson is considered severely disabled herself. ... Harriet though, believes that severely disabled people like herself can be happy and should have the choice of living. She believes that she, like many other disabled people can lead a productive and fulfilling life.
Peter Singer on the other hand believes that all severely disabled people are worse off and have lesser prospects of a happy life. ... He believes that by killing the severely disabled babies then you can have a chance of replacing it with a non- disabled baby. He believes that it is better to have a non- disabled baby, as the overwhelming majority of parents would prefer a non- disabled baby. ... Singer’s argument is his assumption that disabled people suffer. That is, in some ways, true but Harriet believes that disabled people can still be happy and enjoy their life just like normal people. It is hard to compare the life of disabled people to the life of non- disabled people. ... Non- disabled people should not assume that the life of a disabled person is lesser just because they can not do some of the things that non- disabled people can. ... I believe that the parents of a child should have the right to choose if their disabled child should live as I believe that having a disabled child would make the life of the parent much less enjoyable.
Approximate Word count = 1981
Approximate Pages = 7.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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