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My aim is to raise awareness about people with disabilities and how great they are in order for them to receive completely fair treatment and to achieve social acceptance.

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Introduction: A History

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Less than one hundred years ago, over 60,000 people were forcefully sterilized in the state of California. This was done to "cleanse" the gene pool of "feeble-minded" people or people with disabilities. The Supreme Court in the 1927 case of Buck vs. Bell approved these disgraceful actions. In the words of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Many people with disabilities were refused the right to deny physical treatment, and some were even used as test subjects. People with disabilities were also denied the right to vote, a serious infringement upon their rights, because it was believed that they were to "defective" to make a plausible decision. Today, many of these wrongs are being righted but there is still a long way to go before just treatment and social acceptance is aquired for these wonderful human beings.

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This site was last updated on 9 May 2004