Schools Ponder Role As Child Nears Death

[fierceawakening]

from BFP, Bint, MissCripChick, and others:

Schools Ponder Role As Child Nears Death

As the school bus rolled to a stop outside her Lake County home, Beth Jones adjusted the bright yellow document protruding from the pouch of her daughter's wheelchair, making sure it was clearly visible.

In bold letters it warned, "Do Not Resuscitate."

The DNR

Comments

[amberite]

That's why I said, originally, that I didn't want to go over my opinions and didn't want to be a pest. I would have preferred the topic be left alone.

Apparently, though, I'm being more of a pest by withholding them, because the blank fills in with 'we can take body parts out of someone at will'. I don't like want you to think that's my opinion.

So instead of withholding my opinions, I'm going to say: that it's definitively not OK to take out someone's uterus without their permission. And that internally driven body changes can also be experienced as mutilation/violation, and I simply don't ever know what another person will or won't experience that way. Lo, my opinion, which gloomily doesn't provide a rationale or prescription for anything whatsoever. I don't like anything that smacks of programming the fate of another person, so I mostly stayed away from the debate when it was active.

I'd generally like to stay out of it now, but I'd also like you to not hate me and not think I am in favor of harming anyone's bodily integrity.

This incident has now convinced me that even if puberty can be experienced as a violation, the essentials of Ashley's case made a very bad precedent and you and the other disability activists were totally right about it.

This is why I used the past tense regarding my prior perceptions.

I didn't mean to be triggering, I meant to be supportive. I'm sorry. I feel like you often regard me as adversarial, and sometimes I do intend to offer a differing perspective (whether sidelong with yours or in conflict), but this is not one of those times.