Disability Act Cooper

Almost 125,000 businesses across the Midlands have received

a letter asking them to rethink

how they cater for disabled people

sent by the Department for Work and Pensions

and written by the minister for disabled people, in order to

remind companies about their legal responsibilities

under the Disability Act.

“…all too often, disabled people come up against

businesses that haven’t considered their needs, and so

they take their custom elsewhere.”

Businesses need to recognize that it’s not just about doing the right thing

it’s about being profitable too

it’s about disability discrimination and a profit-oriented health care system

some find it galling.

People think it kind to grant the wish of a severely disabled person who asks us to help them die.

Disability so 'bad' that no 'reasonable' person would want to endure it

aching hands that struggle with the simple, uncontrollable

laughter, babbling soliloquies on the bus, a janitor

government funded idiot or disappearing pain trick

hospital dope for accidents, people who need a prayer line

call into the miracle network

and is it wrong

to lump disability rights’ opposition of assisted death

with that of the Christian right?

They’ve got there own reasons, excuses for missing-

what if nothing can be done about the undignified lives of people with disabilities except to help them die

but God gets in the way; made even the cripples and losers in his liking and now

a Staffordshire church could be closed because of the cost of upgrading to meet the Disability Discrimination Act.
They couldn’t keep carrying a little girl in a wheelchair

up and down the steps

skinny, icky Jackie 5 with the red lips and crooked legs

tears in her smudged eyes when she’d ask

to get out.

Some Staffordshire children teased they’d throw her in the river-

if she survived we’d know she’s faking it.