Davyd, How many people have the time, the cash, and the where-with-all to address these issues? Especially people in third world countries with less access to the internet and the telephone?
The rational behind this is that human rights should be enjoyed by all and that having a disability should not deprive anyone of specific rights because of their disability - and far too often they do.

Some people are simply unable to advocate for themselves because they do not have the tools to do it. It is not a matter of choice.

As to rights vs responsibilities. People with disabilites should have the right to have children as should anyone. No one should be forced to have an abortion or to give up their child for adoption on account of disability.

On the otherhand, I do think that inability to provide proper care for a child is reason to not be allowed to have a child. But how can that be determined?

Poor people who clearly cannot afford to have children have them all the time. Do we want a law that sets an income requirement of people being able to have children? How poor is too poor to have a child? How are we going to prevent them from having children? Sterilize them? Force abortions? Force them to have birth control injections? That only prevents poor women from having children - what about preventing poor men who will never support their children from inpregnanting women who might not qualify as poor until they have unsupported children?

History does have a way of repeating itself, though. Being aware of the past is important in that respect, no?

I agree, it's what I kept telling you in regards to Iraq but you kept telling me that I shouldn't keep bringing up the mistakes that were made.

The difference is, Iraq is ongoing in today's world.

Wow...I sit corrected...the bad word ban is one again.