Vol , Issue Date of Publication: October 01, 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2011.085

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Impact of UNCRPD on the status of persons with disabilities

Smitha Nizar
Abstract:
The sanctity of human life is a fundamental human value and the medical profession has been ethically charged with respecting and enhancing the value of all human beings’ lives. However, disabilityselective abortion has been perceived as an acceptable health intervention to eliminate disabilities, and is provided for in law as well as in policies and healthcare programmes related to disability. Advanced medical technologies are being utilised not to maximise the lives of persons with disabilities but to prevent the birth of disabled people by medically terminating foetuses diagnosed with disability. Evidently, disability is seen as undesirable per se by society, and life with disability as not worth living.


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