If the goal is to separate people with disabilities from public life, it can be said that the colonial model has been successful. Michael Rembis, an associate professor and director of the Disability Research Center at the University of Buffalo Oxford Handbook of Disability HistoryDoctors, social workers, and state officials who operated other institutions for colonies and disabled people have been led by the logic of competentism with “racist, gender and class -based thinking” in the attempts to separate, sterilize, and generally limit the population of the disabled.
The colonies were also convinced that people with disabilities would be protected from public views similar to the 19th and 20th centuries.Ugly“It is illegal to exist in public places as a person with a prominent disorder.
In the early 20th century, epilepsy and weak colonies It has become a hotbed for genetics. In 1924, a teenage girl named Carrie Buck was institutionalized for epilepsy in Virginia’s colonies and caught a weak heart after pregnancy outside marriage. Carrie’s birth mother was also institutionalized, so Virginia’s medical supervisor did not convey her claim because she wanted her sterilization. Mental defects To additional children.
Court case, Buckdae BellJudge Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., written for the majority, said that Carrie and Carrie’s daughters (the third generation of severe people are sufficient. ” Buckdae Bell It was ~ Not overturnedand 31 states According to the 2022 report of the National Women’s Law Center, it still allows forced sterilization to be disabled.
Nationwide, maximum 70,000 forced sterilization It was done throughout the 20th century, depending on the NPR, and many people occurred in colonies and other institutions. Rather than focusing on treating the patient, a colony appeared. control: Control of who lives in the community, controls who has not lived, and has the opportunity to have children.
The fixing of RFK JR.’s Wellness Farms is also a risk of eliminating Americans with disabilities in the right to choose how to live their lives. In 1999, the US Supreme Court declared a disabled Americans. I have the right to live and receive support When it is medicalally appropriate, in the community rather than being forced to be a state -owned institution.
RFK JR. enters his wellness farm voluntaryThe Trump administration essentially classified the disabled, chronic health and nerve classification and nerve classification. threat In national security. It is clear that this language does not welcome people with disabilities in this new “American Make Healthy Again”.
Perhaps it’s surprising that we are watching under Mantra, “Make the United States again.” Eugenecist’s resurrection Attempts to withdraw the rights of people with disabilities. Last month as Guardian Texas University at the place owned by Austin Leprosy It is characterized by a controversial, controversial far right and indoisturies that promote high birth rates.
