Helen MacMurchy as a person of national historic significance" (Butler, 2012). Disabled students seek university for a many of reasons. Should not a higher understanding of self-awareness come from the level of the institution and not dependent on outside intervention? Do we not come (and stay) at university to balm our pain with salves of knowledge? Shouldn 't the disabled student have mindfulness and happiness when they graduate? "The reproductive rights movement emphasises the right to have an abortion; the disability rights movement, the right not to have to have an abortion" (Saxton 2014, …show more content…
The former, usually physically impaired, are assumed to have no experience of desire; the latter, usually cognitive/emotional, are determined to suppress and not encourage such behaviour. "By 1937, in the midst of the Great Depression, twenty-eight states had adopted eugenics sterilisation laws aimed primarily at women for whom "procreation was deemed inadvisable." These laws sanctioned the sterilization of over 200,000 women between the 1930s and the 1970s" (Saxton 2014, 89). Similar in medical doctors envisioning of a sex-gender system installs a gender protocol on the infant body by determining the life it is "unable" to live: "infant genital surgery is cosmetic surgery performed to achieve a social result—reshaping a sexually ambiguous body so that it conforms to our two-sex system" (Fausto-Sterling 2008, 80). A fetus is without a developed conscience, yet fastening with an identity predetermining its social succession. "I do not want a disabled woman to be dependent on me to validate my masculine