{"id":93944,"date":"2016-05-07T15:44:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T19:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=93944"},"modified":"2016-05-07T13:39:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T17:39:30","slug":"group-says-people-with-disabilities-have-a-right-to-sex-but-not-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/group-says-people-with-disabilities-have-a-right-to-sex-but-not-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Group says people with disabilities have a right to sex… but not to life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Words can mean different things in different places. For example, when Brits say \u201cshag,\u201d they usually aren\u2019t talking about carpets. Of course, you might hear that word used at the University of Georgia, too. There, it refers to people who struggle with logic.<\/p>\n

Sexual Health Advocacy Group (SHAG) has a chapter at the University of Georgia. SHAG calls itself<\/a> \u201ca student-led organization that strives to open up the conversation about sexual health, sex positivity, and sexual communication.\u201d According to SHAG\u2019s constitution<\/a>, the group is \u201cinclusive\u201d and doesn’t discriminate against those with disabilities. It\u2019s fine with killing them, though.<\/p>\n

SHAG advocates for abortion<\/a>, and its website links<\/a> to others who do the same. Among them is Valerie Tarico, someone who identifies as \u201cpro-abortion, not just pro-choice<\/a>.\u201d On her blog<\/a>, the writer recalled having an abortion after being diagnosed with toxoplasmosis. Tarico feared her baby might be blind or suffer from cognitive impairment, explaining:<\/p>\n

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We both wanted a baby. But it also felt irresponsible to gamble. Not only would we would be taking a chance on the quality of life of our first child, but potentially committing any future children to a life of caretaking that they had no option to choose or reject. We would be risking our own ability to give to the community around us \u2013 and possibly creating a situation in which our family needed to suck more out of society than we could put back into it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Got that? If you\u2019re blind or have another disability, then you \u201csuck\u201d resources and society would be better off without you. Also, your your mom was probably an \u201cirresponsible\u201d gambler for not killing you when she had the chance. And it gets better: not only would it have been \u201cmoral\u201d to kill you, but torture would have been fine too.<\/p>\n

Developmental issues frequently aren\u2019t detected until twenty weeks into a pregnancy, and research by Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand at the University of Tennessee indicates a fetus experiences pain<\/a> by that point. Dr. Anthony Levatino<\/a> has performed over twelve hundred abortions; in the video below, he describes what one at twenty weeks looks like.<\/p>\n