It's no wonder disability rights legislation has failed, writes Ellen Clifford, when the very category of disability is essential to upholding capitalism. Disabled people will never be gifted full equality under a system that, in order to justify itself, needs them to have a worse experience of life than those better suited for exploitation.
    • Lee [any,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      That having a mental illness makes recovery from an organ transplant more difficult. They see it as wasting an organ if they think the person would stuggle too much to the adjustment and die. It's the same reason they deny them to homeless people. Some states have a protection law in place but only some.

      https://ncd.gov/publications/2019/bioethics-report-series