Disability Rights Activists On the Value of Handicapped People’s Lives

From Elizabeth R Schlitz. “Living in the Shadow of Monchberg: Prenatal Testing and Genetic Abortion” in the book Erika Bachiochi. The Cost of “Choice”: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion” (San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2004) p 48

Disability rights activists maintain that “most people with disabilities rate their quality of life as much higher than other people think. People make the decision [to reject embryos] based on a prejudice that having a disability means having a low quality of life.”

Aaron Zitner, “A Girl or Boy, You Pick” Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2012:  A 1 quoting Deborah Kaplan, Executive Director of the World Institute on Disability in Oakland, California

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Sarah Terzo is a pro-life writer and blogger. She is on the board of The Consistent Life Network and PLAGAL +

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