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Feb. 18th, 2008 12:51 pmMore stupid people.
Utah is apparently approving a bill that calls for a registry of autistic people. The reasoning for this is rather ridiculous and once again goes to the idea that people with disabilities have no privacy.
The Utah Registry of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, or URADD, would contain medical histories and would be available to researchers.
"The [autism] research is currently underway, but there isn't enough data to make it meaningful," said the bill's sponsor, Rep. Eric Hutchings, R-Kearns. "That's the big hole we're dealing with."
Emphasis mine. But from the sound of it these medical histories would be available to the researchers without consent from parent or individual. And why would the state even NEED to have a person's complete medical histories on file in the first place?
Autistic people aren't criminals but the idea of the registry is like the Sex Offenders registry. Will people be able to look up if there's going to be an autistic person living next to them and forbid their children to go near them?
No where in the article does it say WHY the people need to be registered and what benefit will it have.
And why aren't they registering other people with disabilities? Surely they have just as much problems and things as autistic people, but they aren't even mentioned. Only autism is picked on.
Which is utterly disgusting.
Utah is apparently approving a bill that calls for a registry of autistic people. The reasoning for this is rather ridiculous and once again goes to the idea that people with disabilities have no privacy.
The Utah Registry of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, or URADD, would contain medical histories and would be available to researchers.
"The [autism] research is currently underway, but there isn't enough data to make it meaningful," said the bill's sponsor, Rep. Eric Hutchings, R-Kearns. "That's the big hole we're dealing with."
Emphasis mine. But from the sound of it these medical histories would be available to the researchers without consent from parent or individual. And why would the state even NEED to have a person's complete medical histories on file in the first place?
Autistic people aren't criminals but the idea of the registry is like the Sex Offenders registry. Will people be able to look up if there's going to be an autistic person living next to them and forbid their children to go near them?
No where in the article does it say WHY the people need to be registered and what benefit will it have.
And why aren't they registering other people with disabilities? Surely they have just as much problems and things as autistic people, but they aren't even mentioned. Only autism is picked on.
Which is utterly disgusting.
