Hate crimes and Able-ism

Marta Russell ap888 at lafn.org
Mon Oct 18 16:23:08 PDT 1999


Charles Brown wrote:


> Seems to me this type of mass murder of elderly or diabled by hateful medical professionals is reported from time to time in the press. Who knows how many others are not reported.

I think we would be floored by the numbers. Some bioethicists who still have some ethics (not operating on bottom line ethics) call what is going on "stealth euthanasia." Wesley Smith is writing a book about this matter which I hope will expose the ethics profession as it grandly deserves.

Marta


> >>> Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> 10/18/99 03:24PM >>>
> When I raise the issue of hate crimes
> against those who are not as "able" as
> others -- coming from an able-ist bias,
> I am often looked at incredulously. So
> many wrongly believe that the disabled
> and elderly are untouchable, cared for,
> protected persons -- how could anyone do
> anything deliberate against them?
>
> Here is one account of such a hate
> crime.
>
> Marta
>
> Indiana nurse found guilty of killing
> patients
>
> BRAZIL, Ind., Oct 17 (Reuters) - An
> Indiana jury on Sunday found
> a former nurse guilty of giving fatal
> injections to six patients in his
> care, allegedly because he hated the
> elderly.
>
> -clip-

-- Marta Russell author Los Angeles, CA Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract http://www.commoncouragepress.com/ramps.html



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