God designed each one of us with sexuality to be celebrated, managed and not hidden. Having a disability does not cancel God's design for beautiful, Biblical, balanced sexuality. Read my article "Caliente! (Hot!)" http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2013/02/caliente-hot.html.
Advocates of abortion, sterilization, "family planning" and infanticide want to cancel the sexuality of the disabled, low-income and those not of certain European heritage. Clarence Gamble, MD, heir to the Procter and Gamble fortune, was one key such advocate who was also heavily involved in Planned Parenthood, described people as "hopeless mental cripples" and fought against people pouring "defective genes into the State's blood stream to pollute and degrade future generations" (Better Health Magazine of the North Carolina Social Hygiene Society, October 1947, "Better Human Beings Tomorrow A Doctor Discusses Frankly The Process of Sterilization And Argues For Wider Use Of Sterilization.")
Gamble's thinking helped the establishment of and promotion of "healthcare" facilities and legislation that disrespects people and creates disabilities rather than curing them. Watch this video of a CNN interview in which Elaine Riddick says about her state-sponsored forced sterilization "... My body was traumatized so severely I ended up having to have a total hysterectomy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzYQLHHCxq8.
Riddick was sterilized more than 40 years ago through the North Carolina Eugenics Board, and she is still talking about it because she loves herself and others. "For me I had to recover because I'm on a mission. Sometimes we can't look at our self. Sometimes we have to do God's will."
In Acts 5 religious leaders sought to stop the apostles from telling people about Jesus Christ. "Then Peter and the apostles replied, We must obey God rather than men (Acts 5:29 Amplified Bible.) Jesus Christ died for sin and to have an eternal relationship with believers. Jesus Christ rose from the dead in three days and wants the good news spread globally. Part of the good news is that God has given believers the power to love Him and people, and He has commanded believers to love.
Killing and maiming innocent people has nothing to do with Biblical love and sexuality. 1 Corinthians 13:6 New Living Translation Bible says about love, "It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out."
Love is active against evil. Chinaaid is speaking out against China's one-child policy. Family planning officials beat up Li Fengfei, forced her to undergo a second-trimester abortion that killed her child and harmed her and are now charging her with a crime! Read her story here http://www.chinaaid.org/2013/09/li-fengfei-arrested-after-exposing.html. Chinaaid is headed by Bob Fu who is a friend of human rights activist and lawyer Chen Guangcheng who spent time in jail and house arrest in China because he filed a 2005 class-action lawsuit against forced abortion and forced sterilization. Watch this interview in which Chen Guangcheng, who is blind, says, "China likes to use violence to crush people like me" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doiWP2SQx2E.
The apostles in Acts 5 experienced violent threats from authorities. Acts 5:42 Amplified Bible says, "Yet [in spite of the threats] they never ceased for a single day, both in the temple area and at home, to teach and to proclaim the good news (Gospel) of Jesus [as] the Christ (the Messiah)."
Are you a victim of state-sponsored sterilization? Don't let threats or pressure stop you from standing up for what's right. You are lovable to God, and God wants you to love yourself and other people. In North Carolina $10 million is to be split equally among those sterilized through the North Carolina Eugenics Board. Compensation claims must be filed by June 30, 2014, for victims to receive a one-time payment to be distributed June 30, 2015. North Carolina had a eugenics board from the 1930s through the 1970s through which social workers, family and others arranged for people to be sterilized. If you think you are one of the victims, you can ask the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation to check the North Carolina Eugenic Board's records by completing and mailing them this form: http://www.sterilizationvictims.nc.gov/documents/FirstPartyVerificationform.pdf. Sometimes people are not able to speak up for themselves and need advocates. If you are not a victim, but are related to a victim, you can ask the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation to check the North Carolina Eugenic Board's records by completing and mailing them this form with required attachments: http://www.sterilizationvictims.nc.gov/documents/ThirdPartyVerificationform.pdf. These forms are verification and not a guarantee of compensation. If you have filed a verification form, please share your experience and inspire others. Write to:
Michele F. Jackson
P. O. Box 2106
Woodbridge, Virginia 22195
Follow Michele F. Jackson on http://www.Twitter.com/Michelelove30.
Proverbs 31:8 Amplified Bible says, "Open your mouth for the dumb [those unable to speak for themselves], for the rights of all who are left desolate and defenseless." It is not a sin to need a full-time caretaker or some other type of assistance. God has given us the responsibility to provide help according to the abilities He has given us. Deanna Copeland is a full-time caretaker for Andrea Hood who has cerebral palsy, spina bifida and autonomic dysreflexia. Copeland only earns $1,400.00 monthly for full-time work through a Medicaid program http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/08/disability_rights_advocates_fa.html.
God wants people to prosper. Deuteronomy 28: 1-13 Amplified Bible says, "If you will listen diligently to the voice of the Lord your God, being watchful to do all His commandments which I command you this day, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you heed the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading trough. Blessed shall you be when you come in and blessed shall you be when you go out. The Lord shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. The Lord shall command the blessing upon you in your storehouse and in all that you undertake. And He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you. The Lord will establish you as a people holy to Himself, as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. And all people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name [and in the presence of] the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you. And the Lord shall make you have a surplus of prosperity, through the fruit of your body, of your livestock, and of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. The Lord shall open to you His good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And the Lord shall make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this day and are watchful to do them."
In South Africa Desmond Tutu retired as archbishop to head the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that exposed many of the evils done under apartheid. Sterilization, abortion, "family planning" and infanticide are human rights abuses. So is not being paid properly for work. Deana Copeland plays a critical role in the healthcare, happiness and wholeness of Andrea Hood, and so do other caretakers like her. If you are a caretaker like Copeland fighting for increased pay, share your story. Write to:
Michele F. Jackson
P. O. Box 2106
Woodbridge, Virginia 22195
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Monday, September 9, 2013
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Truth And Reconciliation Needed, Part 2
"Three generations of imbeciles are enough" wrote Chief Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in the majority opinion for the 1927 Buck v. Bell decision, which upheld the practice of state-sponsored sterilization. Holmes' opinion not only affected people like Carrie Buck it would also affect people like Tony Riddick who has three businesses and his mom Elaine Riddick, Janice Black who has developmental disabilities and physical disabilities and is a friend of Sadie Long who is Black's legal guardian and caretaker and many others.
Like the 1973 US Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade legalized abortion and has not been reversed, neither has the 1927 Buck v. Bell decision legalizing sterilization. In 1974 Elaine Riddick filed a lawsuit accusing the North Carolina Eugenics Board, social workers and the local hospital of unlawfully depriving her of the right to bear children. The US Supreme Court refused to hear her case.
Elaine Riddick was raped at age 13 in North Carolina by a man living in her neighborhood. At the time of the rape, Elaine Riddick lived in a two-bedroom house with her grandmother, Maggie Woodard, known as "Miss Peaches". After her rape North Carolina state staff compelled Miss Peaches, who was illiterate, to sign a form if she wanted to continue to receive public assistance including food stamps. Miss Peaches signed the form with an "X" that permitted the state to sterilize Elaine Riddick without her consent. Watch Elaine Riddick tell her story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFJNX5bHYVI.
Some victims of state-sponsored sterilization have said that they still suffer physical and mental pain from the sterilization. Sterilization hurts. So does abortion which has killed unborn boys, unborn girls, adolescents and adults. Denise Montoya and Tonya Reaves are an adolescent and an adult who have died from abortion. Watch this video testimony from Freda McKissic Bush, MD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60C87TaxpQQ. The US House of Representatives has passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act stopping abortions at 20 weeks and beyond. Pray that the Senate passes this legislation and President Barak Obama signs the legislation into law.
Abortion and sterilization are different from contraception. True contraception is a temporary way of preventing the union of egg and sperm not targeted toward certain groups of people and not used as a substitute for economic development. God designed for some people to be single and some married couples to have no children. God designed for some married couples to have one, two, four, ten and more children. Sometimes people don't follow God's plan for marriage and sperm and egg unite outside of marriage. Sex outside of marriage is not God's will. Human life is God's will. God has a plan for each human life.
Galatians 5:13-14 Amplified Bible says, "For you, brethren, were [indeed] called to freedom; only [do not let your] freedom be an incentive to your flesh and an opportunity or excuse [for selfishness], but through love you should serve one another. For the whole Law [concerning human relationships] is complied with in the one precept, You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself." Umntu ngumntu ngabanye abantu means "a person is a person through other persons."
Desmond Tutu retired as archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, in 1996 to head the Truth and Reconciliation Commission where many victims and perpetrators of apartheid discussed the deeds done during apartheid. America needs a truth and reconciliation commission on state-sponsored sterilization. Nationwide more than 60,000 documented cases of state-sponsored sterilization exist based on the type of sterilization law upheld in Buck v. Bell. Also all government records of sterilization have not been made public.
God desires for deeds of darkness to be exposed and for truth, love and all goodness to prevail. God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit wants people to have good relationships. Good relationships start with receiving and loving God first; then we will know how and have the ability and power to love self and other people. John 16:13-14 Amplified Bible says, "But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future]. He will honor and glorify Me, because He will take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you."
Sterilization and abortion are deeds of darkness promoted by eugenic philosophy and do not glorify God or people. Eugenics is a "science" developed by Francis Galton, a cousin of Evolutionist Charles Darwin, that advocates for the reproduction of certain people and for the elimination of other people, usually the disabled, low-income and those who are not of northern European heritage. Watch this Maafa 21 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02t3Wqg-4Iw.
Eugenics is a global and modern evil now using names like Planned Parenthood, family planning, population control and others. China has a one-child policy with state-permission required for pregnancy, state-monitoring of pregnancy, forced abortion, forced sterilization, fines and other evils. Bob Fu and Chen Guangcheng are some of those fighting to end China's one-child policy.
Chen Guangcheng has also successfully helped disabled people to secure public benefits. Some government contractors and workers are well paid. Others are not. Sadie Long and Deana Copeland are caretakers of disabled persons. Copeland is the caretaker of Andrea Hood, who has cerebral palsy, spina bifida and autonomic dysreflexia. Copeland only earns $1,400.00 monthly for full-time work. Read about Copeland and Hood here: http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/08/disability_rights_advocates_fa.html.
What about cutting government waste such as government funding of Planned Parenthood and other organizations like Planned Parenthood and fully funding caretakers of the disabled like Long and Copeland? Write to:
Michele F. Jackson
P. O. Box 2106
Woodbridge, Virginia 22195
Follow Michele F. Jackson on http://www.Twitter.com/Michelelove30.
All government funding of abortion and sterilization should be cut and the victims compensated. Even though some states like Virginia, California, Indiana and a few others have apologized to sterilization victims, most states have not. Also so far North Carolina is the only American state to financially compensate victims of state-sponsored sterilization.
If you have family and friends in North Carolina, please let them know about North Carolina's financial compensation to victims of sterilization. Ten million is to be split equally. Compensation claims must be filed by June 30, 2014, for victims to receive a one-time payment to be distributed June 30, 2015.
Like the 1973 US Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade legalized abortion and has not been reversed, neither has the 1927 Buck v. Bell decision legalizing sterilization. In 1974 Elaine Riddick filed a lawsuit accusing the North Carolina Eugenics Board, social workers and the local hospital of unlawfully depriving her of the right to bear children. The US Supreme Court refused to hear her case.
Elaine Riddick was raped at age 13 in North Carolina by a man living in her neighborhood. At the time of the rape, Elaine Riddick lived in a two-bedroom house with her grandmother, Maggie Woodard, known as "Miss Peaches". After her rape North Carolina state staff compelled Miss Peaches, who was illiterate, to sign a form if she wanted to continue to receive public assistance including food stamps. Miss Peaches signed the form with an "X" that permitted the state to sterilize Elaine Riddick without her consent. Watch Elaine Riddick tell her story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFJNX5bHYVI.
Some victims of state-sponsored sterilization have said that they still suffer physical and mental pain from the sterilization. Sterilization hurts. So does abortion which has killed unborn boys, unborn girls, adolescents and adults. Denise Montoya and Tonya Reaves are an adolescent and an adult who have died from abortion. Watch this video testimony from Freda McKissic Bush, MD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60C87TaxpQQ. The US House of Representatives has passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act stopping abortions at 20 weeks and beyond. Pray that the Senate passes this legislation and President Barak Obama signs the legislation into law.
Abortion and sterilization are different from contraception. True contraception is a temporary way of preventing the union of egg and sperm not targeted toward certain groups of people and not used as a substitute for economic development. God designed for some people to be single and some married couples to have no children. God designed for some married couples to have one, two, four, ten and more children. Sometimes people don't follow God's plan for marriage and sperm and egg unite outside of marriage. Sex outside of marriage is not God's will. Human life is God's will. God has a plan for each human life.
Galatians 5:13-14 Amplified Bible says, "For you, brethren, were [indeed] called to freedom; only [do not let your] freedom be an incentive to your flesh and an opportunity or excuse [for selfishness], but through love you should serve one another. For the whole Law [concerning human relationships] is complied with in the one precept, You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself." Umntu ngumntu ngabanye abantu means "a person is a person through other persons."
Desmond Tutu retired as archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, in 1996 to head the Truth and Reconciliation Commission where many victims and perpetrators of apartheid discussed the deeds done during apartheid. America needs a truth and reconciliation commission on state-sponsored sterilization. Nationwide more than 60,000 documented cases of state-sponsored sterilization exist based on the type of sterilization law upheld in Buck v. Bell. Also all government records of sterilization have not been made public.
God desires for deeds of darkness to be exposed and for truth, love and all goodness to prevail. God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit wants people to have good relationships. Good relationships start with receiving and loving God first; then we will know how and have the ability and power to love self and other people. John 16:13-14 Amplified Bible says, "But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future]. He will honor and glorify Me, because He will take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you."
Sterilization and abortion are deeds of darkness promoted by eugenic philosophy and do not glorify God or people. Eugenics is a "science" developed by Francis Galton, a cousin of Evolutionist Charles Darwin, that advocates for the reproduction of certain people and for the elimination of other people, usually the disabled, low-income and those who are not of northern European heritage. Watch this Maafa 21 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02t3Wqg-4Iw.
Eugenics is a global and modern evil now using names like Planned Parenthood, family planning, population control and others. China has a one-child policy with state-permission required for pregnancy, state-monitoring of pregnancy, forced abortion, forced sterilization, fines and other evils. Bob Fu and Chen Guangcheng are some of those fighting to end China's one-child policy.
Chen Guangcheng has also successfully helped disabled people to secure public benefits. Some government contractors and workers are well paid. Others are not. Sadie Long and Deana Copeland are caretakers of disabled persons. Copeland is the caretaker of Andrea Hood, who has cerebral palsy, spina bifida and autonomic dysreflexia. Copeland only earns $1,400.00 monthly for full-time work. Read about Copeland and Hood here: http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/08/disability_rights_advocates_fa.html.
What about cutting government waste such as government funding of Planned Parenthood and other organizations like Planned Parenthood and fully funding caretakers of the disabled like Long and Copeland? Write to:
Michele F. Jackson
P. O. Box 2106
Woodbridge, Virginia 22195
Follow Michele F. Jackson on http://www.Twitter.com/Michelelove30.
All government funding of abortion and sterilization should be cut and the victims compensated. Even though some states like Virginia, California, Indiana and a few others have apologized to sterilization victims, most states have not. Also so far North Carolina is the only American state to financially compensate victims of state-sponsored sterilization.
If you have family and friends in North Carolina, please let them know about North Carolina's financial compensation to victims of sterilization. Ten million is to be split equally. Compensation claims must be filed by June 30, 2014, for victims to receive a one-time payment to be distributed June 30, 2015.
Monday, August 26, 2013
Friendship Or Family Control?
Sadie Long and Janice Black have been friends for several years. Long is also Black's legal guardian and caretaker. Black cleans hospital equipment at a medical center in North Carolina and has developmental and physical disabilities.
One day Long noticed a scar on Black's stomach and asked Black about it. Black said it was the result of an operation done to fix her. Long didn't pursue the matter at that time.
A Dutch proverb says, "Sooner or later, the truth comes to light." Long learned about North Carolina forced sterilization practices through news reports.
Proverbs 17:17 Amplified Bible says, "A friend loves at all times, and is born, as is a brother, for adversity." Long helped Black to learn that Black had been forcibly sterilized by North Carolina state when she was 18 because the state considered her to have the mental capacity of a seven-year-old and at-risk for becoming pregnant. Sadie Long says about Janice Black, "Janice never had a boyfriend, she's never been out on a date, she's never been sexually involved;" read more of their story at http://www.wfae.org/post/nc-eugenics-victims-story.
Black is now in her 60s and also a resident of Mecklenburg county which is the same county where Wallace Kuralt worked as a welfare director from 1945 to 1972, according to The Charlotte Observer and said in a 1970 interview that “we’ve pursued sterilization of the inadequate parents more actively than any place in the world... Our activities (in birth control and sterilization) have caused us to give aid to less than 50 percent of the families we would have had to give aid to if it were not for these activities.” Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/08/08/4223519/alice-mae-jackson-and-eugenics.html#storylink=cpy.
Long has been helping Black to go public with her story and play a role like William Lynch, Charles Holt, Alice Mae Jackson, Elaine Riddick, Nial Ramirez and others who have been sterilized and seeking financial compensation from the state of North Carolina. North Carolina is the only US state set to pay compensation to victims of state-sponsored sterilization even though state-sponsored sterilization occurred across the US.
Disabled and non-disabled we all need friends. God the Son Jesus Christ is a friend and a model for friendship. John 15:12-14 Amplified Bible says, "This is My commandment: that you love one another [just] as I have loved you. No one has greater love [no one has shown stronger affection] than to lay down (give up) his own life for his friends. You are My friends if you keep on doing the things which I command you to do." Jesus Christ died for people's sin once and for all time. Jesus Christ rose from the dead in three days. Jesus Christ insists that His people die to selfishness and love people.
Sadie Long and Deana Copeland are both legal guardians and caretakers for persons with disabilities. Copeland is the legal guardian and caretaker of Andrea Hood who has cerebral palsy, spina bifida and autonomic dysreflexia. Hood requires full-time care. As a caretaker of Hood, Copeland receives $1,400.00 through a Medicaid program.
Until recently, the Affordable Care Act prohibited guardians from serving as paid caretakers of an adult child with disabilities. Also regulations to allow parents, spouses and other relatives to serve as both guardians and paid caretakers is still being worked out. Read more at http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/08/disability_rights_advocates_fa.html.
Many families feel that their disabled family members will have a better life being cared for by family as opposed to state staff.
Charles Holt was 19 and living in a North Carolina state institution when he was forcibly sterilized. Charlie Follett was a teenager living in a California state institution when he was forcibly sterilized.
California has more than 20,000 state-sponsored sterilizations and is believed to be the US state with the most sterilizations based on laws like the Virginia sterilization law upheld in the 1927 US Supreme Court decision Buck v. Bell. However, all state records have not been made public. California is also the state where sizable numbers of Chinese started coming to America in the 1800s to make a living mining gold. China today also has state-sponsored sterilization. Feng Zhongxia was subjected to a forced abortion, a forced sterilization and other evils. Philip P. Pan reports in The Washington Post article "Who Controls the Family?, "She recounted that she was seven months pregnant and on the run when she learned that local officials had detained more than a dozen of her relatives and wouldn't release them unless she returned for an abortion.
"My aunts, uncles, cousins, my pregnant younger sister, my in-laws, they were all taken to the family planning office," she said. "Many of them didn't get food or water, and all of them were severely beaten." Some of the relatives were allowed to call her, and they pleaded with her to come home.
Feng called the family planning officials. "They told me they would peel the skin off my relatives and I would only see their corpses if I didn't come back," she said. The next day, she turned herself in. A doctor examined her, then stuck a needle into her uterus. About 24 hours later, she delivered the dead fetus. "It was a small life," she said quietly.
Afterward, she said, the family planning workers insisted on sterilizing her, too. "I'm a human being. How can they treat me like that?" she asked;" read more at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/26/AR2005082601756_2.html.
Some say abortion, sterilization and discrimination against the disabled and others is necessary to treat society. However, God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit says human life is valuable in all its varieties and stages.
If you are a guardian and/or caretaker of a person with disabilities, what are your thoughts about the Affordable Care Act? Also please share stories about victims of abortion and sterilization. Write to:
Michele F. Jackson
P. O. Box 2106
Woodbridge, Virginia 22195
Follow Michele F. Jackson on http://www.Twitter.com/Michelelove30.
One day Long noticed a scar on Black's stomach and asked Black about it. Black said it was the result of an operation done to fix her. Long didn't pursue the matter at that time.
A Dutch proverb says, "Sooner or later, the truth comes to light." Long learned about North Carolina forced sterilization practices through news reports.
Proverbs 17:17 Amplified Bible says, "A friend loves at all times, and is born, as is a brother, for adversity." Long helped Black to learn that Black had been forcibly sterilized by North Carolina state when she was 18 because the state considered her to have the mental capacity of a seven-year-old and at-risk for becoming pregnant. Sadie Long says about Janice Black, "Janice never had a boyfriend, she's never been out on a date, she's never been sexually involved;" read more of their story at http://www.wfae.org/post/nc-eugenics-victims-story.
Black is now in her 60s and also a resident of Mecklenburg county which is the same county where Wallace Kuralt worked as a welfare director from 1945 to 1972, according to The Charlotte Observer and said in a 1970 interview that “we’ve pursued sterilization of the inadequate parents more actively than any place in the world... Our activities (in birth control and sterilization) have caused us to give aid to less than 50 percent of the families we would have had to give aid to if it were not for these activities.” Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/08/08/4223519/alice-mae-jackson-and-eugenics.html#storylink=cpy.
Long has been helping Black to go public with her story and play a role like William Lynch, Charles Holt, Alice Mae Jackson, Elaine Riddick, Nial Ramirez and others who have been sterilized and seeking financial compensation from the state of North Carolina. North Carolina is the only US state set to pay compensation to victims of state-sponsored sterilization even though state-sponsored sterilization occurred across the US.
Disabled and non-disabled we all need friends. God the Son Jesus Christ is a friend and a model for friendship. John 15:12-14 Amplified Bible says, "This is My commandment: that you love one another [just] as I have loved you. No one has greater love [no one has shown stronger affection] than to lay down (give up) his own life for his friends. You are My friends if you keep on doing the things which I command you to do." Jesus Christ died for people's sin once and for all time. Jesus Christ rose from the dead in three days. Jesus Christ insists that His people die to selfishness and love people.
Sadie Long and Deana Copeland are both legal guardians and caretakers for persons with disabilities. Copeland is the legal guardian and caretaker of Andrea Hood who has cerebral palsy, spina bifida and autonomic dysreflexia. Hood requires full-time care. As a caretaker of Hood, Copeland receives $1,400.00 through a Medicaid program.
Until recently, the Affordable Care Act prohibited guardians from serving as paid caretakers of an adult child with disabilities. Also regulations to allow parents, spouses and other relatives to serve as both guardians and paid caretakers is still being worked out. Read more at http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/08/disability_rights_advocates_fa.html.
Many families feel that their disabled family members will have a better life being cared for by family as opposed to state staff.
Charles Holt was 19 and living in a North Carolina state institution when he was forcibly sterilized. Charlie Follett was a teenager living in a California state institution when he was forcibly sterilized.
California has more than 20,000 state-sponsored sterilizations and is believed to be the US state with the most sterilizations based on laws like the Virginia sterilization law upheld in the 1927 US Supreme Court decision Buck v. Bell. However, all state records have not been made public. California is also the state where sizable numbers of Chinese started coming to America in the 1800s to make a living mining gold. China today also has state-sponsored sterilization. Feng Zhongxia was subjected to a forced abortion, a forced sterilization and other evils. Philip P. Pan reports in The Washington Post article "Who Controls the Family?, "She recounted that she was seven months pregnant and on the run when she learned that local officials had detained more than a dozen of her relatives and wouldn't release them unless she returned for an abortion.
"My aunts, uncles, cousins, my pregnant younger sister, my in-laws, they were all taken to the family planning office," she said. "Many of them didn't get food or water, and all of them were severely beaten." Some of the relatives were allowed to call her, and they pleaded with her to come home.
Feng called the family planning officials. "They told me they would peel the skin off my relatives and I would only see their corpses if I didn't come back," she said. The next day, she turned herself in. A doctor examined her, then stuck a needle into her uterus. About 24 hours later, she delivered the dead fetus. "It was a small life," she said quietly.
Afterward, she said, the family planning workers insisted on sterilizing her, too. "I'm a human being. How can they treat me like that?" she asked;" read more at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/26/AR2005082601756_2.html.
Some say abortion, sterilization and discrimination against the disabled and others is necessary to treat society. However, God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit says human life is valuable in all its varieties and stages.
If you are a guardian and/or caretaker of a person with disabilities, what are your thoughts about the Affordable Care Act? Also please share stories about victims of abortion and sterilization. Write to:
Michele F. Jackson
P. O. Box 2106
Woodbridge, Virginia 22195
Follow Michele F. Jackson on http://www.Twitter.com/Michelelove30.
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