HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Reproductive Rights, Disability Rights Movement, Leonard Roy Frank
21 Dec 2016
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Mentally incapacitated denied right to vote until 1988 in canada. From late 1800s, idiots and lunatics prohibited from entering canada for fear of degeneracy and dependency. Until 1967, canada immigration act listed people with mental illness in undesirable category of potential immigrants. Mental disorder as basis for deportation (e. g. autism). Marriage and reproductive rights limited, forced sterilization. Institutionalization may represent threat to property rights, treatment choices. Recent years have seen increased organization to challenge marginalization If diagnosed with phobias or depression or other milder forms of mi you were still allowed. People in hospitals were determined to be incapable. Even today some people"s mds are grounds for deportation. We usually associate eugenics with the 1930s but it really went away in the 70s and 80s - mi were denied the right to marry, have children etc. Property rights denied - mi are not in the right frame of mind to control money, write a will, treatment choices are limited.
