without being inquisitive I want you to understand the delicate difference while treating me the same ... I want you to get inside my skin without my explanation.15
Ellen also points out the inconsistency of claiming concern for disabled people but simultaneously espousing the extraordinary notion that their very right to exist is just a matter of individual choice:
At the risk of sounding like a messenger of doom, only recently I read articles suggesting that any women refusing to have amniocentesis or similar tests for disability during pregnancy, or refusing to have abortions when they know their babies are disabled, should be denied the right to any state help in bringing up the child. Pro-life supporters may be accused of being right wing, but doesn't that sound rather fascist to you?16
People who argue that it is their right to choose to eliminate the disabled usually say something like 'the State does not provide sufficiently good help for the handicapped so they will not have a good quality of life. It will be even worse when they destroy the National Health Service. Therefore it is better that we abort them.' That is defeatism. The answer is to stand up for both the right to live and for the right to a good quality of life. Nor do we have to simply wait for the Government - any government - to become more caring. Here Christians can point to a formidable record in caring for the powerless and vulnerable.
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