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?Score One for Disability Rights?

By Ann Bartow

That’s the title of this post at Angry for a Reason, below is a short excerpt (but you should read the whole thing):

On September 11th the Senate passed S. 3406, the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. This is a big fucking deal for people with disabilities. Now I’m gonna ask you to send a short email to you reps and ask them to vote for it (it had 77 cosponsors in the Senate (including my own, Patty Murray, who I love, and Hillary Clinton) so hopefully that’s some indication that it will easily be passed in the House as well). What is so great about this? It changes the language, it removes some of the worse paragraphs, it gives people with disabilites (more) legal recourse if discriminated against, and it changes the definition of disability as well as putting in writing (thank god-this is something that means a lot to me personally as someone *on* disability who is mostly functional on medication) that the determination o whether or not one has a disability is made without taking into account things that aid in helping the person to lead a “normal” life.

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on September 15, 2008 (boomark / email).