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Originally Posted by Rainshower77
Personally, I don't see the point of judging Bell. Afterall he does have a deaf mother and wife.
How many of you support abortion because the child have down syndrome or other mental disease? Making deaf sterilized to prevent more deaf people (when abortion was not common) is no different than abortions done today to prevent down syndromes and other disorder. Most doctors WILL suggest abortions too which is also no difference than Bell suggesting sterilization on deafs . Except today, we have better technology to determine which babies can live or die.
People always had and always will support eliminating people with some kind of disorders as possible.. no matter how they do it.
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It is not only the issue of sterilizing..AGBell forced many deaf people to be oral and banned them from using sign language. He took away their rights to full access to language and communication because he wanted deaf people to be the mold of hearing people.